I will try to work very hard not to disappoint the people of South Africa.

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 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.

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.

Apartheid was baked hard in the mining industry because that's where it originated.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Tough decisions have to be made to close our fiscal gap, stabilise our debt, and restore our state-owned enterprises to health.

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

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'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.

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.

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

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.

Marikana is a huge wake-up call.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

Nobody, no family, is above the law.

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.

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

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 have to have a good look at the Constitution. Let's determine where the shortcomings are. Then we can start talking of clauses.

Because of their marginalised position in the economy, the mass of the workers carry the burdens of society.

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.