Quotes by Cyril Ramaphosa - Page 2

When I was appointed deputy president, I accepted it, and it is the president's prerogative to appoint or remove anyone to the Executive.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Accepted
Prerogative
Remove
Appoint
Deputy
Executive
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In defence of Madiba's legacy, we will continue to wage a relentless war on corruption and mismanagement of the resources of our country.
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Defence
Legacy
Mismanagement
Relentless
Resources
Wage
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We are determined to rebuild the confidence of our people in public institutions and restore the credibility of those elected to serve them.
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Credibility
Determined
Our People
Rebuild
Restore
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Land is a very broad as well as a complex issue, and it has to be handled very delicately because around land, there is quite a lot of emotion.
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Broad
Handled
Quite A Lot
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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.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Corruption
Promise
Address
Realized
Rife
Root
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Corruption in state-owned enterprises and other public institutions has undermined our government's programs to address poverty and unemployment.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Poverty
Unemployment
Enterprises
Programs
Undermined
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If you read the Freedom Charter carefully, you will find that - the clause that refers to education, and it says education must be free 'on merit.'
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Charter
Merit
Carefully
Clause
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We must be able to identify those who want divide our movement, and say, 'Not in our name.' We need to choose leaders that will not divide the ANC.
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Divide
Identify
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The expropriation of land without compensation should be among the mechanisms available to government to give effect to land reform and redistribution.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Available
Compensation
Among
Effect
Mechanisms
Redistribution
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We need to remind ourselves of the kind of society of which we have dreamed for so long, for which we have fought, and for which so many lost their lives.
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Dreamed
Fought
Remind
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We say South Africa is an open country, and when people come here, we must deal with them with dignity and respect within the parameters of our Constitution.
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Dignity
Parameters
South Africa
Respect Country People
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When courts rule in our country, we have them as the final arbiter on matters in which we might not agree on. And that is an important pillar of our democracy.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Agree
Arbiter
Democracy
Courts
Matters
Pillar
Rule
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The expropriation of land without compensation is envisaged as one of the measures that we will use to accelerate redistribution of land to black South Africans.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Accelerate
Compensation
African
Envisaged
Measures
Redistribution
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We need to work together as social partners to focus on our economy by removing all the obstacles to investment and move South Africa to a higher level of growth.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Higher Level
Investment
Obstacles
Partners
South Africa
Work Focus Together
Removing
Work Together
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We want to clean up South Africa so that we can begin to make it more attractive to investors but at the same time to deal with the issues that are impeding growth.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Attractive
Investors
South Africa
Clean Up
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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.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Objectives
Working Together
Alliance
Ensuring
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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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Orderly
Manner
Purposeful
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We aim to restore our focus on building an economy in which all South Africans can flourish, an economy which benefits the people as a whole rather than a privileged few.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Aim
Privileged
African
Flourish
Restore
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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.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Right Things
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Issues to do with corruption, issues of how we can straighten out our state-owned enterprises, and how we deal with 'state capture' are issues that are on our radar screen.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Capture
Radar
Enterprises
Straighten
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Money has come to play a very bad role in the ANC; people's votes are bought, and patronage has become the order of the day. All those deviant tendencies need to be curbed.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Patronage
Votes
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Whenever you go through the length and breadth of our country... you see a long face: you will see the long face of an African woman because she's black, because she's poor.
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Breadth
Length
African
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All our policies must be measured by the extent to which they contribute to job creation. Policies that do not create jobs - or that threaten jobs - must be reviewed and revised.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Creation
Job Creation
Contribute
Extent
Measured
Policies
Reviewed
Revised
Threaten
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We are a nation that does not build walls. We do not believe in building walls. And that defines who we are. We are South Africans, and we do not subscribe to the building of walls.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
African
Subscribe
Walls
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We must stop the division among us. We must stop factionalism. We must embrace unity; we must embrace working together, because if we are divided, we will not be able to win in 2019.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Divided
Division
Embrace
Unity
Working Together
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We must investigate without fear or favour the so-called 'accounting irregularities' that cause turmoil in the markets and wipe billions off the investments of ordinary South Africans.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Accounting
Billions
Favour
Ordinary
Turmoil
Wipe
African
Investigate
Investments
Markets
So-Called
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No man is born believing that he has dominion over women. Instead, this view is handed down from generation to generation and amplified through social custom, culture, and popular media.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Dominion
Amplified
Believing
Custom
Handed
Popular
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We want to open spaces for young people to thrive in this economy, and that is why we said... when government buys commodities and services, we must have some set aside for young people.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Open Spaces
Thrive
Government Must People
Aside
Buys
Commodities
Services
Spaces
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We must acknowledge that there are factions in our movements... We should not be telling lies to each other; we should tell the truth to each other with the view that there will be unity.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Acknowledge
Factions
Telling Lies
Unity
Movements
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During the worst days of apartheid, we turned to the church for hope and courage as we fought a righteous struggle for a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist, just, and prosperous South Africa.
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Apartheid
Prosperous
Righteous
South Africa
Fought
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In working to end violence against women and children, we need to ensure that men are centrally involved. Men need to organise themselves in a sustained campaign against gender-based violence.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Men Women Children
Ensure
Women Men Children
Organise
Sustained
Women And Children
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Some say the Constitution has robbed us of a proper land redistribution process. Others would want to look at other clauses. Well, it's South Africa. Everything is transparent and open for debate.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Constitution
Debate
South Africa
Transparent
Clause
Proper
Redistribution
Robbed
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We have all the good policies, all right visions, but the problem is implementation. When we come out of national conference, we want those leaders we have chosen to be those who can implement policies.
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Chosen
Conference
Implement
Policies
Visions
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We are building a country where a person's prospects are determined by their own initiative and hard work and not by the color of their skin, place of birth, gender, language, or income of their parents.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Birth
Determined
Income
Initiative
Prospects
Work Hard Work Parents
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Marikana should not have happened. We are all to blame, and there are many stakeholders that should take the blame. But taking the blame should mean that we should make sure it never, ever, happens again.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Blame
Stakeholders
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Everyone has to be receptive to the decisions of the ANC because that is the political center. You have got to accept the decisions, and you also have to accept the direction that you are given by the ANC.
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Receptive
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My campaign to become leader of the ANC was pivoted on two things: Renewing the ANC and taking back to the values the were espoused and subscribed to by Nelson Mandela, Oliver Thambo, and many other leaders.
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Nelson
Mandela
Oliver
Subscribed
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We are determined to build a society defined by decency and integrity that does not tolerate the plunder of public resources nor the theft by corporate criminals of the hard-earned savings of ordinary people.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Society
Corporate
Criminals
Decency
Defined
Determined
Integrity
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Plunder
Resources
Savings
Theft
Tolerate
Build
Does
Public
Nor
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We will accelerate our land redistribution program not only to redress a grave historical injustice but also to bring more producers into the agricultural sector and to make more land available for cultivation.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Accelerate
Available
Cultivation
Historical
Injustice
Producers
Redress
Agricultural
Grave
Redistribution
Sector
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The country is yearning to put behind all these horrible things that have to do with corruption, state capture, behind us. The sooner these are all done, the better, because we want to move on; we want to move on to a better life.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Better Life
Capture
Horrible
Horrible Things
Yearning
Sooner
Move On
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We are a big economy, and we must, therefore, show that we can manage it, but not only manage it, but that can transform it so that this economy works for all of our people so that everyone feels that they have a stake in this economy.
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Manage
Our People
Stake
Transform
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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.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Cohesion
Developmental
Labour
Prosperity
Remains
Blueprint
Inclusive
Realise
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We are determined that expropriation without compensation should be implemented in a way that increases agricultural production, improves food security, and ensure that land is returned to those from who it was taken under colonialism and apartheid.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Apartheid
Colonialism
Compensation
Determined
Agricultural
Ensure
Implemented
Improves
Returned
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There are times when leadership needs to take a bold move forward. And there are times when the leadership needs to act on the basis of what the grass roots say. You need to have your political thermometer constantly in the political waters to know when to give leadership in what way.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Grass
Roots
Bold
Grass Roots
Move Forward
Thermometer
Waters
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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.
Cyril Ramaphosa /
Stolen
Concerns
Our People
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