In his response to the SONA Debate, President Ramaphosa assured the nation that apartheid-era forced removals would not happen under the new Expropriation Act.
President Cyril Ramaphosa told the House that black people, some of whom were in attendance, know the pain of being forcefully removed from their land or homes, therefore they won't do it., Solidarity and all white people who are concerned about land expropriation to rest in comfort because South Africans will not do what the apartheid government did to black people.Ramaphosa was responding to the State of the Nation Address Debate that took place in Cape Town on Thursday and Wednesday.
Ramaphosa said this was because South Africa is guided by a constitution that prohibited arbitrary deprivation of property. Although it seemed to support freedom of cultural expression and equal growth on paper, the manner it was put into practice prevented this, he said.
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