Top 66 Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes

If we are to put a stop to corruption and state capture, those responsible must be brought to book.

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.

Nobody, no family, is above the law.

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.

Free education for all – whilst it is a desirable notion, in South Africa it will simply not be affordable.

We need to rid our State Owned Enterprises of corruption because the money being siphoned out should be funding them.

South Africa has not turned its back on human rights at all.

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.

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.

We need to transform our rural areas, restore the land to its rightful owners, and significantly grow our agricultural output.

We have brave hearts and won’t retreat. We are not going back; we are going forward.

Leaders are meant to lead from the front, but at the same time, they are also meant to listen to what their followers are saying.

We will wash and clean the ANC, and it will be the ANC you know. The ANC that will work for the people.

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.

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.

We must not have an economy that discourages and chases away investors from investing in South Africa.

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.

Students want free education because their parents are struggling. The fees of universities and technikons are too high.

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.

As the ANC, we have got to condemn violence as a method of addressing our differences and disputes amongst us.

We remain a highly unequal society in which poverty and prosperity are still defined by race as well as gender.

What we want is for our young people to be skilled.

You can never have unity if you want things to go your way.

We should put behind us the era of diminishing trust in public institutions and weakened confidence in our country’s public leaders.

Land has been an issue of great concern to our people.

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.

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.

We are determined to rebuild the confidence of our people in public institutions and restore the credibility of those elected to serve them.

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.

I believe things that happen in the ANC family must be handled there.

New schools, hospitals, clinics, factories, bridges, dams, and airports tell the story of a South Africa that has indeed moved forward.

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.’

When I was appointed deputy president, I accepted it, and it is the president’s prerogative to appoint or remove anyone to the Executive.

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.

We are going to seek to improve the lives of our people on an ongoing basis, and since 1994, we have done precisely that.

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.

We must be determined to get rid of factions within the ANC. We must get rid of divisions within the ANC.

Things such as corruption is a big thing in the ANC.

The expropriation of land without compensation should be among the mechanisms available to government to give effect to land reform and redistribution.

To those who have being stealing government money, it has to come to an end.

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.

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.

We need to make sure that the ANC branches are strong, that they can lead the communities we live in.

The ANC must ensure that South Africa does not become a mafia state because once you reach that state, all the wheels have come off.

We can make this country the garden of Eden.

There is nothing wrong with students demanding free education, and, in fact, it is something that our children deserve.

Somewhere in the depths of my soul is the connection my father had with his cattle, the hills of Khalavha, and his people.

If we are not honest, we are not going to be able to forge unity.

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.

We want to renew our vows with our people. We want to reconnect with our people. We want to get our people excited again.

Young people must feel that they can be real actors in our economy and be creative and be imaginative and be innovative.

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.

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.

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.

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.

As members of the executive, we are accountable to Parliament.

I have not committed any crimes. I have not stolen any money. I have not looted state resources.

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.

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.

We have to build further on the collaboration with business and labor to restore confidence and prevent an investment downgrade.

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.

To get education to sink deep into the minds of a nation takes a generation and more.

We must again carry the burden of our people and shoulder our commitment to leading them to the promised land.

In defence of Madiba’s legacy, we will continue to wage a relentless war on corruption and mismanagement of the resources of our country.

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.

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.