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70 years later: The lingering pain of Sophiatown 's displacement still reverberates across South Africa
As the nation grapples with conspiracies about discrimination against white people due to the Expropriation Act spewed by the richest country in the world, those who have actually felt the sting of forced removal and displacement have wounds that have neither scarred nor scabbed over but are still aching and disturbed by the constant attempt to rewrite history.
"My family was one of these families. My mother often recounts the story of the day armed men showed up at their home in"The ironically named Meadowlands was to be their new home. There were no schools, or trees or clinics or parks. Just rows and rows of newly constructed asbestos-roof houses. And as you can imagine ... No compensation," said Rise Mzansi national chairperson, Vuyiswa Ramokgopa wrote on X.
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