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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>President Cyril Ramaphosa has buckled under pressure from EFF leader Julius Malema and has \u201capologised\u201d to the people for Alexandra for creating \u201can impression\u201d that his government would build them 1-million houses, back in 2019.<\/p>\n

Ramaphosa sponsored the apology in the National Assembly on Thursday, when he was pushed on the matter by Malema during an oral questions and answers session which was the president\u2019s first under the auspices of the government of national unity, or the seventh parliament.<\/p>\n

Malema wanted Ramaphosa to tell parliament what progress had been made since his promise in April 2019 to the people of Alexandra\u2019s Stjwetla area, on the banks of the Jukskei River, \u201cwho get washed away\u201d when it rained.<\/p>\n

In his reply, which was met with loud gasps from EFF members of the house, Ramaphosa said he never promised to build the 1-million houses for the people of Alexandra alone, but his was a national, five-year target.<\/p>\n

He told MPs that in terms of that target, only 40,000 houses were earmarked for the people of Stjwetla.<\/p>\n

Ramaphosa insisted that given the topographical shape of Alexandra, it was not possible to have built a million houses there.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s quite clear from the recording of what I said that these houses were not just for Alexandra,\u201d said Ramaphosa.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s simply not enough space … to even approach the scale of 1-million houses.<\/p>\n

\u201cHousing in Alexandra has long been a challenge; many people continue to move there due to its proximity to economic opportunities. This strains existing resources and increases housing demand. There is lack of available land for development in and around Alexandra itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

This did not sit well with Malema, who challenged Ramaphosa to own up and apologise to the people of Alexandra for seemingly misleading them.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident, it\u2019s leadership to admit you\u2019ve made a mistake. You can\u2019t come here and say you\u2019ve never promised the people of Alexandra a million houses,\u201d said Malema.<\/p>\n

The EFF leader told Ramaphosa he had raised hopes and expectations of the people of Alexandra, most of whom were living in squalid conditions amid their \u201cdaily housing struggles\u201d. He said Ramaphosa also had to apologise in honour of an EFF leader based in Alexandra, Moshe Mphahlele, who was recently shot dead during a protest regarding flats owned by the Johannesburg Housing Company.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn their honour, I think it\u2019s the correct thing to say, \u2018I am sorry, I made a miscalculation.\u2019 To say you\u2019ve not said it, you are now becoming a professional politician who can just say this today and turn against it tomorrow and then it\u2019s business as usual.<\/p>\n

In response, Ramaphosa started by offering his condolences to the EFF and Mphahlele\u2019s family.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo the extent that it created this impression that I said a million houses for Alexandra, which objectively would not be possible anyway because we just don\u2019t have the land there to build a million houses.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd to the extent that it created that impression, yes, I apologise for having made people believe that I meant for Alexandra.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ramaphosa also conceded that the 1-million national target was never met, with only 240,000 houses built.<\/p>\n

He said the 40,000 houses would be build in Frankenwald and Linksfield, to benefit the people of Alexandra and Stjwetla.<\/p>\n

Ramaphosa further said that \u201cone urgent task is to relocate about 8,000 households who live within the flood lines of the Jukskei.<\/p>\n

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