Cyril Ramaphosa

President of South Africa since 2018

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Justice Pillay’s crowning as winner of the Nobel Prize allows us to celebrate the progressive contributions she has made to strengthen peace, uphold human dignity and bring hope in South Africa and to peoples globally. She has served humanity with principle and the belief that the world can and should be a better place,
We have placed the burden of male violence on women,
This cannot be accepted as a normal part of life in South Africa,... We must confront an uncomfortable truth. What we have done has not been enough.”
For too long, gender-based violence has been treated as a woman’s problem to solve. Women march, the women of our country organise, they speak out, they protest, they confront and they comfort survivors,
I address you tonight with the heaviest of hearts. I speak as president of the Republic. I also speak as a man, as a husband and as a father to daughters,
  • Ramaphosa said in a live televised address, calling the violence inflicted upon the women of the country "a source of profound pain and national shame."
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There has understandably been widespread fear that the discovery of these women in close proximity could indicate the work of a single perpetrator,

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