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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. "

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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" We must be humble and listen to the people who elected us to lead. "

" It is important that South Africans of all political persuasions be represented in Parliament. "

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

" Corruption in state-owned enterprises and other public institutions has undermined our government's programs to address poverty and unemployment. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 need to mobilise our structures and our supporters to oppose state capture and corruption in whatever form it takes. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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