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
We need to transform our rural areas, restore the land to its rightful owners, and significantly grow our agricultural output.
I will try to work very hard not to disappoint the people of South Africa.
Violence against women and children resembles an epidemic. It has spread through society, sparing no social group or class.
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.
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 now know, without any shred of uncertainty, that billions of rands of public resources have been diverted into the pockets of a few.
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.
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 have to build further on the collaboration with business and labor to restore confidence and prevent an investment downgrade.
We can make this country the garden of Eden.
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'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.
I have not committed any crimes. I have not stolen any money. I have not looted state resources.
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.
We must again carry the burden of our people and shoulder our commitment to leading them to the promised land.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
We need to make sure that the ANC branches are strong, that they can lead the communities we live in.
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 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 need to mobilise our structures and our supporters to oppose state capture and corruption in whatever form it takes.
We want to renew our vows with our people. We want to reconnect with our people. We want to get our people excited again.
The ANC will never die; it will live.
What we want is for our young people to be skilled.
We want young people to come forward with bright ideas; we want the women and men in our country to have jobs.
As the ANC, we have got to condemn violence as a method of addressing our differences and disputes amongst us.
We must be humble and listen to the people who elected us to lead.
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.
There is nothing wrong with students demanding free education, and, in fact, it is something that our children deserve.
Free education for all - whilst it is a desirable notion, in South Africa it will simply not be affordable.
Somewhere in the depths of my soul is the connection my father had with his cattle, the hills of Khalavha, and his people.
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.
To get education to sink deep into the minds of a nation takes a generation and more.
The expropriation of land without compensation should be among the mechanisms available to government to give effect to land reform and redistribution.
Apartheid was baked hard in the mining industry because that's where it originated.
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.
Tough decisions have to be made to close our fiscal gap, stabilise our debt, and restore our state-owned enterprises to health.
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.'
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.
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.
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 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.
Things such as corruption is a big thing in the ANC.
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 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.
