President Cyril Ramaphosa says the prevalence of gender-based violence remains one of the country’s biggest obstacles toward achieving full and meaningful gender equality.

President Cyril Ramaphosa says that a framework for a social compact has been developed that identifies priority actions to achieve higher levels of investment and growth, increase employment, protect the rights of workers and expand support for the unemployed and tackle extreme poverty.

President Cyril Ramaphosa says that Nelson Mandela Day is an opportunity to remember that the country's problems, like so many we have faced before, are not insurmountable and that they can be overcome.

In the wake of the Enyobeni Tavern tragedy, President Cyril Ramaphosa is calling on South Africans to have a frank discussion on the problem of under-age drinking in the country.

The lifting of COVID-19 restrictions and the release of the final state capture report in the same week are two significant developments that will change South Africa in different ways, says President Cyril Ramaphosa.

President Cyril Ramaphosa will attend the Brics Leaders’ Summit later this week and says that is a valuable platform for South Africa to strengthen ties with its partner countries in support of our own growth and employment creation.

President Cyril Ramaphosa says that government will continue to champion programmes and initiatives that limit the impact of unemployment on young people until the private sector starts creating more jobs at scale.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has acknowledged that the rising cost of living has hit South Africans hard but said that government would do everything within its power to protect South Africans from unsustainable increases in the cost of living.

With the announcement of the appointment of a new Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Advisory Council, President Cyril Ramaphosa hopes to expand the frontiers of broad-based black economic empowerment.

In the wake of the urination incident at University of Stellenbosch, President Cyril Ramaphosa says that we need to understand what is causing racist attitudes to flourish in our schools and places of higher learning.

President Cyril Ramaphosa says in his weekly newsletter that the departments of home affairs, health and social development have been assisting affected communities to access important services.

President Cyril Ramaphosa said that it was deeply disturbing how the recent incidents of anti-foreigner sentiment in parts of the country echoed our apartheid past.

In his first newsletter for 2022 and in the wake of the fire at Parliament President Cyril Ramaphosa said that South Africa's democratic institutions were not defined by the buildings that housed them but by the work they did and the confidence they inspired.

President Cyril Ramaphosa said scientific evidence showed that vaccination was the most effective means of preventing the spread of new infections, and that vaccines reduced severe illness, hospitalisation and death.

President Cyril Ramaphosa is hoping that his visits to Nigeria, Ghana, the Ivory Coast and Senegal will strengthen strategic partnerships with these countries, open new markets for businesses in both countries and help these economies recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has used his weekly newsletter to highlight the shameful increase in child murders, rapes and domestic violence abuse in South Africa and has called on men to play a greater role in ending gender-based violence in the country.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has highlighted the roles that community-based groups and civil society organisations have played in supporting the country's response to the coronavirus pandemic and that government wanted to build on this through the new Social Employment Fund.

President Cyril Ramaphosa is encouraged to see that the investment drives started in 2018 are gathering pace and is optimistic that the environment for further investment is being set up that will see a sustained economic recovery in South Africa.