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The DA is selling the Good Hope Centre plus 50 properties, aggregating 282,000 hectares. This is mass-scale privatization of state resources!! If the DA gets power, it will sell off all state resources to wealthy businessmen & create an irreversible oligarchy, as it is in the USA, where people...

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