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		<title>You used to be cool</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/mandelarhodesscholars/2012/05/16/you-used-to-be-cool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 12:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mandela Rhodes Scholars</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mark John Burke Owen is a good friend from my childhood, school and, even later, university years. We had very much the same interest when it came to girls, subjects choices, future dreams and, most importantly, American comedy. At a certain stage this fondness of cheap entertainment included a sitcom of the animated yellow-coloured...]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, please don’t break our hearts</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/archbishoptutufellows/2012/05/16/obama-please-dont-break-our-hearts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/archbishoptutufellows/2012/05/16/obama-please-dont-break-our-hearts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 09:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Archbishop Tutu Fellows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bright Simons The enthusiasm that greeted the election of Barack Obama, the first and only American president with an African name, was palpable across Africa. Everywhere you travelled you heard and felt a new wave of positive sentiments about the possibility of a great new era for doing business between Africa and America. One...]]></description>
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		<title>Review of the judiciary: Transformation = co-operation</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/christivanderwesthuizen/2012/05/16/review-of-the-judiciary-transformation-co-operation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/christivanderwesthuizen/2012/05/16/review-of-the-judiciary-transformation-co-operation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 07:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christi van der Westhuizen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/?p=13502</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost exactly three years ago, Jacob Zuma addressed the last ANC rally before the election on April 22 2009, which returned the ANC as ruling party and made him president of the country. He spoke about everything from education to crime before he identified two institutions that required &#8220;transformation&#8221;: the judiciary and the media. Just...]]></description>
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		<title>Game of Thrones and the brutalisation of popular entertainment</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/davidsaks/2012/05/15/game-of-thrones-and-the-brutalisation-of-popular-entertainment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/davidsaks/2012/05/15/game-of-thrones-and-the-brutalisation-of-popular-entertainment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Saks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few would disagree that the hit fantasy-adventure TV series Game of Thrones is, from a purely aesthetic point of view, an outstanding achievement. Its production values are top notch and the acting and scripting are of a consistently high standard. Certainly, it is a yardstick by which the impressive advances made in television entertainment over...]]></description>
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		<title>Is hierarchical democracy an oxymoron?</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/iandewar/2012/05/15/is-hierarchical-democracy-an-oxymoron/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/iandewar/2012/05/15/is-hierarchical-democracy-an-oxymoron/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 11:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Dewar</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/?p=13485</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I sometimes wonder if the constitutional notion of &#8220;participative democracy&#8221; is not just an impossible, idealistic dream. We are eighteen years down the road since our 1994 elections and the only hard evidence I have of my participation in our new democracy has been making my mark on a few ballot papers. The countless thousands...]]></description>
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		<title>Zille: Three tweets to the wind</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/oneyoungworld/2012/05/15/zille-three-tweets-to-the-wind/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/oneyoungworld/2012/05/15/zille-three-tweets-to-the-wind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 09:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>One Young World</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh After the DA leader&#8217;s first Twitter-related faux pas, describing voters as &#8220;supporting the ANC because they were given KFC&#8221;, I winced, bit my lip, and continued with my day. After her second slur, depicting Simphiwe Dana as a &#8220;professional black&#8221; for apparently trading on her race in criticising the Western Cape government’s...]]></description>
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		<title>Apartheid for better or for worse</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/brentmeersman/2012/05/15/apartheid-for-better-or-for-worse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/brentmeersman/2012/05/15/apartheid-for-better-or-for-worse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 07:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brent Meersman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/?p=13459</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have fallen into the trap myself: become so outraged by government mismanagement that I wanted to beat them with the biggest stick I could: &#8220;It is worse than it was under apartheid!&#8221; Unfortunately, this is not what &#8220;worse than under apartheid&#8221; communicates to most South Africans. It is all too easily read as &#8220;better...]]></description>
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		<title>Why South Africa needs a second transition</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/leeroychetty/2012/05/15/why-south-africa-needs-a-second-transition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/leeroychetty/2012/05/15/why-south-africa-needs-a-second-transition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 07:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee-Roy Chetty</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/?p=13449</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What kind of country do we want to live in? Despite the achievements we have made as a young democracy, the persistence of widespread poverty and extreme levels of inequality remain a major threat to social cohesion and nation-building. But how do we effectively and realistically reduce inequality and eliminate poverty? In a recent United...]]></description>
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		<title>The press club that is not a press club</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/readerblog/2012/05/14/the-press-club-that-is-not-a-press-club/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/readerblog/2012/05/14/the-press-club-that-is-not-a-press-club/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 13:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reader Blog</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/?p=13454</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rams Mabote Imagine walking into a butcher shop only to find that it is actually a morgue, in spite of the signage outside. Worse still, how would you feel if you took your car for a service only to realise that the place advertised as a workshop is actually a chop shop? Do you...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>How do we galvanise outrage over Mdluli?</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/sarahbritten/2012/05/14/how-do-we-galvanise-outrage-over-mdluli/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/sarahbritten/2012/05/14/how-do-we-galvanise-outrage-over-mdluli/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 08:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Britten</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[e-tolls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evil zombie accountant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jessica Leandra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mandy Wiener]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Mdluli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sam Sole]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/?p=13400</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What do the racist tweets, e-tolls, the POIB and rhino poaching have in common? Recently they have all been the focus of public outrage. Outrage is a useful thing. It was outrage that saw Jessica Leandra stripped of her endorsements and title, outrage that put a temporary halt to e-tolls, and outrage that has forced...]]></description>
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