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	<title>Thought Leader &#187; Rod MacKenzie</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Gays, race and this institutional thing of marriage</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/rodmackenzie/2010/07/27/gays-race-and-this-institutional-thing-of-marriage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod MacKenzie</dc:creator>
		
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<category>bigotry</category><category>China</category><category>homophobia</category><category>institutions</category><category>life long partners</category><category>sexual partners</category><category>sexuality</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Truth be told, I am not married and have never been married, now at the sweet, tender, gullible age of 47. That&#8217;s right, the Chook and I (the Chook being my missus Marion) have never stood under showers of confetti and their lovely, tasteful representation of great fertility: clouds of sperm pouring luxuriously through the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rugby World Cup at Kiwi cut-throat prices</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/rodmackenzie/2010/07/20/rugby-world-cup-at-kiwi-cutthroat-prices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod MacKenzie</dc:creator>
		
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<category>Mugg Bean</category><category>prices of restaurants</category><category>rugby world cup</category><category>Spur restaurant</category><category>Steers</category><category>tourist traps</category>
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The current furore in New Zealand about the country being a rip-off for tourists (so look out rugby World Cup 2011 tourists) should be taken seriously when a former All Black who played in 81 test matches says NZ is “really expensive”and suggests that pricing needs to be addressed. Former All Black Justin Marshall bases [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Her ashes in New Zealand, her ashes in South Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/rodmackenzie/2010/07/16/her-ashes-in-new-zealand-her-ashes-in-south-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod MacKenzie</dc:creator>
		
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<category>Jingoism</category><category>Margaret Atwood</category><category>Negotiations with the Dead</category><category>Tayla Storm</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A South African tourist, Tayla Storm, died in New Zealand after a lengthy battle with a rare infection. The tragedy for her and her family will be felt for many years to come. The clumsy cliché of the previous sentence reminds me of how words simply get in the way of expressing how we feel. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uninsured SA tourist in critical state gets amazing Kiwi medical care</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/rodmackenzie/2010/07/09/uninsured-sa-tourist-in-critical-state-gets-amazing-kiwi-medical-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod MacKenzie</dc:creator>
		
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<category>charity</category><category>free medical care</category><category>humanitarianism</category><category>Kiwi hospitality</category><category>New Zealand Herald</category><category>North Shore hospital</category><category>Takapuna beach</category><category>Tayla Storm</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A South African visitor has so far cost New Zealand about one and a half million rands because of a rare infection she contracted whilst travelling here in New Zealand. After reading this spectacular sample of hospitality and humanity I needed to take a walk and chose Takapuna beach to clear my mind. 

 Takapuna [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Explaining an SA crime story to a Kiwi child</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/rodmackenzie/2010/07/09/explaining-an-sa-crime-story-to-a-kiwi-child/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 07:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod MacKenzie</dc:creator>
		
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<category>crime stories</category><category>ex pats</category><category>foreigners</category><category>forgiveness</category><category>remorse</category><category>retrieving our collective identity through autobiography</category><category>warhammer</category><category>writing a novel</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;So I got this cool plot nearly worked out for my new blockbuster novel,&#8221; I grinned at Dylan, Marion&#8217;s Kiwi grandson. 
&#8220;Blockbuster?&#8221; the eleven-year-old said. &#8220;You mean like it&#8217;s selling lots?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I haven’t got there yet,&#8221; I said with a mock bruised ego, while he was busy painting his Warhammer toy ogres. I grimaced at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How &#8216;South African&#8217; is it not to trust people?</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/rodmackenzie/2010/06/15/how-south-african-is-it-not-to-trust-people/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/rodmackenzie/2010/06/15/how-south-african-is-it-not-to-trust-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod MacKenzie</dc:creator>
		
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<category>boundaries</category><category>hospitality</category><category>meeting strangers</category><category>real or imagined communities</category><category>what makes news</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Marion and I went to the local shopping mall here where we live in Auckland, New Zealand. Whilst having some coffee we got into conversation with a Kiwi couple. I had first noticed him when I went to order the coffee from a takeaway in the food court. The two breakfasts he ordered looked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The joy of queues, lessons of being a &#8216;non-native&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/rodmackenzie/2010/06/09/the-joy-of-queues-lessons-of-being-a-%e2%80%9cnon-native%e2%80%9d-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/rodmackenzie/2010/06/09/the-joy-of-queues-lessons-of-being-a-%e2%80%9cnon-native%e2%80%9d-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod MacKenzie</dc:creator>
		
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<category>drivers licences</category><category>immigrations</category><category>pranks</category><category>superheroes</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Easily the longest queue of my life was getting that new driver&#8217;s licence card in 2003 in Randburg (how may SA readers out there have stories about that long drama?). I was a mere nine hours in that queue, nothing compared to some. Yet all us South Africans endlessly joked, made friendships, exchanged phone numbers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The zol and the police helicopter</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/rodmackenzie/2010/06/03/the-zol-and-the-police-helicopter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod MacKenzie</dc:creator>
		
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<category>ashtrays</category><category>forgetting your car</category><category>holy herb</category><category>marijuana</category><category>police</category><category>satellite tracking devices</category><category>Taffy s pub</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[William was one of the hardest workers I knew. He simply loved working with his hands and believed it kept him young. He was always looking for extra work, was a sharp negotiator for the highest wage and I remember him cutting back the privet hedges of our home not long after Marion and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Childhood murder</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/rodmackenzie/2010/05/28/childhood-murder-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 03:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod MacKenzie</dc:creator>
		
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<category>childhood memories</category><category>corner cafes</category><category>parenting</category><category>retrieving our collective identity through autobiography</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Based on a true story

Tom became fearful when his father picked him up from school, Boksburg High. He could tell straight away there was something wrong again with dad. It was often in the evenings that something was not right about his father: it could be seen in his father’s face through the windshield of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zapiro&#8217;s mockery of Bafana Bafana not necessary</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/rodmackenzie/2010/05/26/zapiro%e2%80%99s-mockery-of-bafana-bafana-not-necessary-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/rodmackenzie/2010/05/26/zapiro%e2%80%99s-mockery-of-bafana-bafana-not-necessary-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 06:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod MacKenzie</dc:creator>
		
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<category>All Blacks</category><category>Bafana Bafana</category><category>Bokke</category><category>Fifa</category><category>New Zealand</category><category>rugby</category><category>Springbok</category><category>World Cup</category><category>Zapiro</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Zapiro&#8217;s latest published cartoon (a re-run from December 2009) presents Bafana Bafana as a pack of dwarves among the giants in the upcoming Fifa World Cup. In email conversations with friends (whose sports knowledge is way ahead of mine) they regard Zapiro&#8217;s humiliating presentation of Bafana Bafana as spot on. Bafana Bafana is only [...]]]></description>
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