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President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the audience during the Cosatu central committee meeting

“We will get our money back from that family” – Ramaphosa attacks Guptas again

No time for silence.

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President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the audience during the Cosatu central committee meeting

ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa may have been quiet after President Zuma survived the motion of no confidence, but he wasn’t quiet this Saturday.  Speaking at an OR Tambo Memorial Lecture in Soweto, Ramaphosa once again hit out at the infamous Gupta family and their role in looting from government.

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“We must go back and say to certain families, we want our money back.”

While not mentioning the name “Gupta” directly, Ramaphosa makes his stance pretty clear, just like he did a few weeks ago when he hit out at the family for “using state money to pay for a wedding”.

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Ramaphosa received a warm welcome in Soweto and made sure to sing the praises of OR Tambo before saying that he would want the ANC to reclaim its status as a “glorious movement”.

“We must be determined to get rid of factions within the ANC. We must get rid of divisions within the ANC. We must be able to identify those who want divide our movement and say not in our name. We need to choose leaders that will not divide the ANC,”

While other ANC members may have rejected criticism against the party, Ramaphosa said that when South Africans see problems, those problems need to be addressed.

“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.”

Ramaphosa also took issue with the implementation of the ANC policies. He said the ideas are good but they just can’t seem to get done.

“We have all the good policies, all right visions, but the problem is implementation. When we come out of national conference, we want those leaders we have chosen to be those who can implement policies.”