One of the other things that is going to help to give a boost to our economy is how we reform our state-owned enterprises. ... The state-owned enterprises were sewers of corruption, a number of them. ... There was rot, there was filth and there was deep corruption. We are rooting all that out right now. (Cyril Ramaphosa)

One of the other things that is going to help to give a boost to our economy is how we reform our state-owned enterprises. ... The state-owned enterprises were sewers of corruption, a number of them. ... There was rot, there was filth and there was deep corruption. We are rooting all that out right now.

Cyril Ramaphosa

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