“We need to make sure that the ANC branches are strong, that they can l...” — Cyril Ramaphosa Quote

We need to make sure that the ANC branches are strong, that they can lead the communities we live in.

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.

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

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

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.

Poisonous frogs feast on insects that don't even have names. Tropical lizards disappear into the cracks of trees whose branches spread out as wide as their trunks climb high. This is the real Florida, as it was before people, and probably will be after us, too.

In the summer of 1997, a little more than half a lifetime ago, I got my first proper summer job. The job, with one of the many branches of Canada's federal government in Ottawa, covered the entire tuition for my sophomore year of college.

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear.