Cyril Ramaphosa

Speaker of the National Assembly, Ms Thoko Didiza,Ministers and Deputy Ministers,Honourable Members,Fellow South Africans, Thirty years ago, the people of South Africa adopted a Constitution that transformed our country from a divided past into a democratic future. That Constitution remains our national covenant. It is the foundation upon which we are building a society founded on freedom, dignity, equality and opportunity for all. The Constitution mirrors the hopes and aspirations of the mil…

Speaker of the National Assembly, Ms Thoko Didiza,Ministers and Deputy Ministers,Honourable Members,Fellow South Africans, Allow me to thank the members of this House for what has been, for the most part, a debate of substance on Vote 1.This debate has demonstrated that while we may differ on matters of policy and politics, there is broad agreement on the challenges confronting our nation and on the urgency with which they must be addressed. South Africans expect of all of us not simply to dia…

Your Excellency, Dr William Ruto, President of the Republic of Kenya,Members of the governments of Kenya and South Africa,Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a profound honour and a personal joy to welcome President Ruto and the Kenyan delegation to South Africa. This Reciprocal State Visit is a celebration of the friendship and solidarity that binds our two nations. Ours is a relationship rooted in shared values, mutual respect and a common vision for democracy, peace and prosperity across Africa. …

Your Excellency, President William Ruto,Ministers from South Africa and Kenya,Ambassadors and High Commissioners,Senior Government Officials,Members of the Media, This morning we were privileged to warmly welcome His Excellency President Ruto and Mrs Rachel Ruto, who are accompanied by a Delegation of Ministers. Our countries enjoy longstanding ties of friendship, solidarity and cooperation. These ties are rooted in our shared history, our common aspirations for African development and our mu…

Programme Director,Minister of Health, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi,Deputy Minister of Health, Dr Joe Phaahla,Premier of Mpumalanga, Mr Mandla Ndlovu,Executive Mayor of the Gert Sibande District, Cllr Walter Mngomezulu,Co-Chairperson of SANAC,Mr. Solly Nduku,Chief Executive of Gilead Sciences, Mr Daniel O’Day,Executive Director of the Global Fund, Peter Sands,International Development partners,UNITAID, WHO, UNAIDS, Children Investment Funds Foundation,Partners from labour, civil society and business,Dist…

Fellow South Africans,I wish to address you this evening on a matter that concerns many South Africans.Over recent months, South Africans from every walk of life have raised concerns about migration and illegal immigration.These concerns are being expressed in our communities, our workplaces, our schools, our clinics and across social media platforms.Many South Africans are asking difficult but legitimate questions.They are asking whether our borders are secure.They are concerned about jobs.Sout…

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Among the outcomes that we seek is a substantial growth in the volume and the value of the trade between our two countries. That's what we want. But we also want to see real investments being put on the ground. Now, we know that since 2022, total trade between South Africa and Kenya has grown by an average of 3.5% a year. We should be at a higher percentage. Kenya remains in our case South Africa's largest trading partner on the continent outside the South African Development Community. But we w…

To make sure that we live up to the powerhouses of the two economies. Kenya is a powerhouse in East Africa. South Africa is a powerhouse in Southern Africa. And together we become a greater powerhouse on our continent. Taking advantage of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area, President Ruto has correctly said this Africa Continental Free Trade Area gives us all on the African continent an historic and unprecedented opportunity to make sure that we trade with each other. To make sure that we cr…

We've been working on a number of reforms. Reforms that have had to do with our electricity generation. And we've moved our country away from load shedding. The load the electricity generation has improved in increasingly over time. And we haven't let had blackouts for almost more than a year. And those are the efforts that government has been taking to make sure that we create a conducive environment for businesses to operate. And similarly, we've been looking at how we improve our logistics. H…

My dear brother President Ruto, earlier this year in March we held the South Africa Investment Conference and we've been having these for a number of years now. And we always put a target for the 5-year term of our government to say by this 5-year term we want to have raised so much money. In the last term we had put a target of 1.3 trillion rand, 1.5 trillion rand rather. And we invite businesses to come forward to respond to the quest that we should create a conducive environment for investmen…