Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa

Now more than ever, we need a multilateral trading system that promotes inclusive economic growth and development, with the World Trade Organization at its core. https://t.co/mmw3bo4RoY — PolitiTweet.org

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa

We need to recognise that trade is not an end in itself but a means of raising standards of living, creating employment and improving people’s lives. https://t.co/mmw3bo4RoY — PolitiTweet.org

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa

Unequal access to vaccines presents a huge risk to a sustained global recovery.   The Economist Intelligence Unit estimates that vaccine inequality will come at a cost of some $2.3 trillion to global GDP between 2022 and 2025.   https://t.co/mmw3bo4RoY — PolitiTweet.org

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa

The WTO has a central role in addressing trade and intellectual property related barriers to boost and diversify production of vaccines, diagnostics & therapeutics. Passing a time-bound, targeted #TRIPSWaiver is urgent if we are to save millions of lives. https://t.co/mmw3bo4RoY — PolitiTweet.org

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa

It is said that less than 2% of adults are fully vaccinated in most low-income countries, compared to almost 60% in highincome countries.    This gross inequality is both unjust and counterproductive. https://t.co/mmw3bo4RoY — PolitiTweet.org

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa

Our inability to act on the call by President Mandela to change patterns of production has cost the world millions of lives and has undoubtedly extended the duration of the pandemic. https://t.co/mmw3bo4RoY — PolitiTweet.org

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa

The world is at this moment experiencing the debilitating effects of inequality in the patterns of global production. While human ingenuity has produced several effective & safe COVID-19 vaccines, human inertia has severely limited access to vaccines. https://t.co/mmw3bo4RoY — PolitiTweet.org

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa

Importantly, he called for WTO members to forge a partnership for development through trade and investment.   President Mandela’s message is as relevant today as it was at that time. — PolitiTweet.org

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa

He said that special consideration must be given to developing economies, and that the WTO should contribute to changing, rather than defending, the existing patterns of production. — PolitiTweet.org

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa

In his remarks, President Mandela called for a WTO that recognises the frustrations of ordinary people. He emphasised the importance of trade rules and that they should be fair. — PolitiTweet.org

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa

As we consider the WTO response to the pandemic, I am reminded of President Nelson Mandela’s address on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. https://t.co/bTipWMRMqY — PolitiTweet.org

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa

This is a particularly valuable platform as the global community confronts the COVID-19 pandemic and the devastating effect it has had on lives, on health, on livelihoods and on society. https://t.co/mmw3bo4RoY — PolitiTweet.org

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa

I wish to thank Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the honour of addressing this important event. The WTO Public Forum is a unique opportunity to hear a broad range of global voices on trade, development and human progress.   https://t.co/mmw3bo4RoY — PolitiTweet.org

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa

Trade Beyond COVID-19 : Building Resilience https://t.co/mmw3bo4RoY — PolitiTweet.org

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa

And so today we ask you to go out and vote on the 1st of November.   We ask you to give the ANC a resounding mandate to fix Tshwane, our capital city, and every other city, town, village and rural area in the country.   Vote for South Africa.   #VoteANC https://t.co/dkqnAUZ7GD — PolitiTweet.org

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa

We now know that unless you, the voters actively partner with us in our mission to build better communities we will not be able to achieve the pledges we make in our manifesto. #ANCManifesto https://t.co/uNlOecby5W — PolitiTweet.org

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa

We will achieve this goal, if we build each and every community according to these fundamental values. We cannot and will not accept islands of privilege in an ocean of despair.   But we cannot do this alone. #ANCManifesto https://t.co/uNlOecby5W — PolitiTweet.org

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa

We have come a long way in our young democracy, but much remains to be done.   Working together, we will build a united, non-racial, non-sexist, democratic and prosperous South Africa.   #ANCManifesto https://t.co/uNlOecby5W — PolitiTweet.org

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa

And so, we come to you today, and call on you to come out and vote for the ANC so that we can again govern here in #Tshwane and in many other towns and cities. We ask this so that we can put the programme of social & economic transformation back on track. https://t.co/uNlOecby5W — PolitiTweet.org

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa

Informal traders attempting to make an honest living are harassed and intimidated. — PolitiTweet.org

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa

Throughout the city, infrastructure funds are diverted while residents living in coloured, Indian and African communities face burst pipes, over-flowing sewage, roads filled with potholes and dilapidated parks and sports facilities. — PolitiTweet.org

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa

Informal settlements have not been upgraded and the city has failed to make land available so that residents can access serviced stands and move out of inhumane settlements on dolomitic land. — PolitiTweet.org

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa

Once more families could not wash, could not flush their toilets. Parents could not cook for their children or wash school uniforms on time.   In many areas of this city, rubbish is not collected regularly and lies in huge dumps attracting flies and rats. — PolitiTweet.org

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa

This has caused great hardship for the residents of Tshwane. People living in Atteridgeville, Laudium and Hammanskraal, for example, have faced long periods without water.   Just last week, water in Laudium and Atteridgeville was cut off yet again for nearly eight days. — PolitiTweet.org

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa

As a result, a number of cities and towns, including Tshwane, have been governed other parties for the past five years. — PolitiTweet.org

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa

We understand that you were disappointed with the ANC, discouraged by our shortcomings and angry about allegations of state capture and corruption.   #ANCManifesto https://t.co/uNlOecby5W — PolitiTweet.org

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa

Comrades and friends,   As the African National Congress, we are well aware that many people here in Tshwane and elsewhere in the country decided not to vote for us in the 2016 local elections. #ANCManifesto https://t.co/uNlOecby5W — PolitiTweet.org

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa

In all our programmes and in all our activities, we need to ensure that we empower women economically, socially and politically – so that we can steadily advance towards the achievement of gender equality and a non-sexist society. #ANCManifesto https://t.co/uNlOecby5W — PolitiTweet.org

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa

The ANC will continue to tackle violence against the LGBTQIA+ community with the same resolve that we tackle other hate crimes. No-one must be discriminated against or attacked on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity.   #ANCManifesto https://t.co/uNlOecby5W — PolitiTweet.org

Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa

We must intensify our work to make homes, public spaces and places of work safer for women and children.   The fight against gender-based violence is our collective responsibility. #ANCManifesto https://t.co/uNlOecby5W — PolitiTweet.org