Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes
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Our Vision 2030 remains the blueprint for inclusive growth, social cohesion, and prosperity for all. Under this plan, we will continue to develop skills that can help our country realise its developmental goals and address labour market issues.
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People must respect our movement.
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Because of their marginalised position in the economy, the mass of the workers carry the burdens of society.
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We remain a highly unequal society in which poverty and prosperity are still defined by race as well as gender.
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As the ANC, we have got to condemn violence as a method of addressing our differences and disputes amongst us.
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If we are to put a stop to corruption and state capture, those responsible must be brought to book.
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I will try to work very hard not to disappoint the people of South Africa.
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One of the other things that is going to help to give a boost to our economy is how we reform our state-owned enterprises. … The state-owned enterprises were sewers of corruption, a number of them. … There was rot, there was filth and there was deep corruption. We are rooting all that out right now.
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We must be determined to get rid of factions within the ANC. We must get rid of divisions within the ANC.
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You can never have unity if you want things to go your way.
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As members of the executive, we are accountable to Parliament.
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To get education to sink deep into the minds of a nation takes a generation and more.
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We must listen to the concerns of our people without dismissing them. When people see something wrong, there is something wrong. When our people see corruption, it means there is corruption. When our people see that their resources are being stolen by certain people, it means this is happening, and we should listen.
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South Africa has not turned its back on human rights at all.
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We must be humble and listen to the people who elected us to lead.
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Climate change is a reality.
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We should draw deep into Madiba's wisdom. We should draw deep into Madiba's style of doing things in an orderly manner, in a purposeful manner, in a way where we focus.
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We have realized that corruption is rife, and we are going to address it. We are going to root out corruption, and that is a promise I can make.
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We have brave hearts and won't retreat. We are not going back; we are going forward.
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We can make this country the garden of Eden.
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We will wash and clean the ANC, and it will be the ANC you know. The ANC that will work for the people.
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We must again carry the burden of our people and shoulder our commitment to leading them to the promised land.
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We've got to be moving together, working together, leading the country together, and ensuring that we achieve the objectives that our alliance has set out for itself.
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I believe that our economy is not a one- or two-percent growth economy; I believe it can grow at four percent, and we can revitalize our economy if we do the right things.