South African (nationality)

Now that is R24 billion that we are removing from other programmes.

— Ramaphosa said this while speaking to journalists at the Bana Pele ECD Summit in Sandton.

The founding statement of intent of Government of National Unity binds every partner to promote the constitutional framework of this Republic. To come to the Constitutional Court to argue against enfranchisement of hundreds of thousands of South Africans does not sit easily beside that understanding.

— Fikile Mbalula, ANC secretary-general, remarks on calls to review the DA’s role in the GNU

It was one of the darkest chapters in the history of journalism in South Africa, but you refused to abandon the responsibility to tell the truth.

— Cyril Ramaphosa speaking to gathered editors at the Black Wednesday event

A right our people bled for cannot be taken away by a screen design.

— Fikile Mbalula, speaking after the Constitutional Court ruling on candidate inclusion; he argued that a right his people bled for cannot be taken away by a screen design.

Water, electricity, also the houses that we live [in], is not in a good condition

— Mihle Mthetho, a resident of the nearby Covid informal settlement in Mfuleni (which sprung up during the pandemic), said she was unhappy and would not be voting, during Ramaphosa's door-to-door campaign in Cape Town.

I ordered him to rest and said, 'You’re not going back to work until I and the doctors are satisfied. I’m a doctor also by marriage. Only when I am satisfied that you are fully okay,' Ramaphosa said.

— President Cyril Ramaphosa, during remarks after Mbalula's collapse at a media briefing at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg.