Quotes from Cyril Ramaphosa

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

It is not the function of the leader of government business to discipline members of the executive.

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.

We can make this country the garden of Eden.

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.

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.

Violence against women and children resembles an epidemic. It has spread through society, sparing no social group or class.

We want young people to come forward with bright ideas; we want the women and men in our country to have jobs.

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.'

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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