He said South Africans need the same determination and resilience shown by those who created the Freedom Charter to fix the challenges the country is currently facing.
It invited people from across the country to share their views on the vision they had for South Africa, during the time it still had an apartheid government.
Ramaphosa said the charter was the "lodestar" and the "bedrock" of the country's constitutional democracy and was a sterling example of how people, acting in unity and congress, could come together to craft a vision they had for their country.
Ramaphosa also tackled the economy, saying the Freedom Charter had stated that the wealth of the country would be shared among all those who lived in it - but that this was not the case.
Speaking on racism, he said the charter said the country belonged to all who lived it in, but South Africa and the world continued to see a rise in racism, discrimination based on ethnicity, and narrow nationalism.
