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Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
I want to thank you once again for the opportunity to address these important hearings. The people of South Africa look to government and to our security services to safeguard them, safeguard the country and, together, to safeguard democracy. https://t.co/9zTJar036r — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Closing Statement #JulyUnrestHearing https://t.co/9zTJar036r — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
The July 2021 unrest was a humiliating event. The instigators wanted to exploit the vulnerabilities of our people and that manifested in them participating in their own humiliation. #JulyUnrestHearing https://t.co/Gg9Fu4jwWp — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
#SAHRC July Unrest Hearing #JulyUnrestHearing https://t.co/fy5G6plGO8 — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
#SAHRC July Unrest Hearing https://t.co/PE9bOJhRg3 — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
It is my hope that these hearings will enable the country to move forward with confidence and hope, and that as a society we realise we must do everything within our means to ensure that they are never allowed to happen again. https://t.co/6bIC5Q8Shu — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
This is what the South African people deserve. This is what those who lost their lives in the tragic events of July 2021 deserve. https://t.co/6bIC5Q8Shu — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
We must take action on the lessons that have been learned by strengthening the capacity of our law-enforcement and other agencies to deal with any acts of this nature. We have already taken steps to do so, and further actions will follow. https://t.co/6bIC5Q8Shu — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
It was the people of South Africa who peacefully and within the law worked to restore calm and protect lives, property and infrastructure. The assault on our democracy failed because the people of South Africa would not allow it. #JulyUnrestHearing https://t.co/6bIC5Q8Shu — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
What emerges most clearly from this terrible chapter is the determination of the South African people to resist efforts to tear our country apart. #JulyUnrestHearing https://t.co/6bIC5Q8Shu — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Notwithstanding the shortcomings of the state’s response, culpability for the violence and destruction this level of mobilisation must lie with those who planned them and carried them out. https://t.co/6bIC5Q8Shu — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
A proper reading of my statements over those days, the chronology of when they were made, and an examination of the events that took place clearly show this cannot be plausible. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
What I do not agree with, however, is the allegation made in complaints received by this Commission that what I said could have led to the escalation of the violence and looting. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Of course, it has been proven that this sentiment was and is not shared by the majority of the South African people. This is something I have acknowledged repeatedly, and will do so here again. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
These words gave me cause for great concern. That tribalism, something the founders of the organisation that I lead, the ANC, sought to obliterate from the South African political and social landscape, was in this instance rearing its ugly head. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
That is also why hearing testimony on Day 4 of these hearings by Ms Melanie Veness, the CEO of the Pietermaritzburg and Midlands Chamber of Business about graffiti sprayed across a truck in Pietermaritzburg depicting words ‘Ramaphosa must go back to Venda’ hit a particular nerve. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
That is why being showed conversations saying things like ‘iVenda alime kancane thina bantu bangempela sisalungisa izindaba zethu,’ and ‘Thina angeke sibuswe nge Venda’ went beyond being personally hurtful. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
But I, like millions of South Africans, have bitter memories of our past, where tribalism and ethnic chauvinism was used to promote hatred, and to divide. It is a time I never wish to see recur. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
The conversations and hashtags in circulation at the time saying things like “#CyrilMustResign or #CyrilMustGo” are all expressions of the right to free speech enshrined in our Constitution. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Like millions of South Africans, I also followed the many conversations, watched the video clips and listened to the audio recordings being disseminated. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
The question in the minds of many will then be, on what basis did I make the assertion. Like many South Africans, I am a viewer, a listener and a reader. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
I was clear and I will be categorical again here today, the majority of our people have out of principle refused to be mobilised along these lines. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Later in the same week, I visited areas affected by the unrest where I made it clear that the evidence that was emerging did not support the position taken earlier. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
The day following this address, I had a meeting with interfaith leaders, where I said: “In some areas, there were also suggestions of ethnic mobilisation, although it seems to be accepted that this was limited.” — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
“However, what we are witnessing now are opportunistic acts of criminality, with groups of people instigating chaos merely as a cover for looting and theft.” — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
“At the beginning of this unrest, there may have been some people who sought to agitate for violence and disorder along ethnic lines. We know that the majority of our people have out of principle refused to be mobilised along these lines. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
I further wish to remind the Commission that as information emerged indicating that this was not in fact a prominent factor propelling the unrest, I acknowledged this, and timeously. In my address to the nation a day later on Monday the 12th of July 2021 I said: — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
To the extent that this was happening, I condemned it. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
I understand why this statement was controversial, and appreciate that it may have caused ill-feeling to many. This statement was based on reports that I had received of social media posts and messages that appeared to be using ethnic and tribal chauvinism to encourage unrest. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
“This must be condemned by all South Africans at all costs as we are a nation committed to non-racialism and non-tribalism that is underpinned by the diversity and unity of all the people of South Africa, whatever their language, culture, religious beliefs and race.” — PolitiTweet.org
