South Africans march for 'sovereignty' after US pressure:

The task of the next thirty years is to deepen that transformation through restoration, redress and restitution. Our task is to ensure that the rights and freedoms contained in the constitution are not only protected in law but experienced in the daily lives of all South Africans.

— Ramaphosa, during the Human Rights Day commemoration in Kimberley

Over the last eight years, our country faced some of the most intractable and difficult challenges, but working together, we have undertaken a programme of institutional renewal by stabilising what was weakened through state capture.

— Remarks by President Cyril Ramaphosa during the SONA debate reply.

Give local law enforcement investigation powers, adequately resource the South African Police Service, and particularly Crime Intelligence, to break the back of organised crime and gangsterism across the Western Cape, but all across our country.

— Alan Winde, Premier of the Western Cape, emphasizes the need to empower local law enforcement.

As for now, I’ve been asked to say, 'we are not suspending you but because there are investigations ongoing, we suggest that you stay at home'. And this is what I’ve accepted as well and I am happy to do so.

— Lieutenant-General Shadrack Sibiya speaks about his leave of absence during ongoing investigations.

The government knows that unless the nucleus of racial capitalism, from whence the chromatin network of landlessness, poverty, inequalities, and all forms of structural violence emerges, is addressed, meaningful transformation will not happen.

— Malaika Mahlatsi, in her article discussing the National Dialogue in South Africa.