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		<title>Media tribunal smacks of an ANC cover-up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[African National Congress secretary-general Gwede Mantashe in a report in The Star newspaper on Friday called upon newspaper editors to join the debate on setting up a media tribunal rather than act defensively.
Mantashe said the invitation is in order that the media engage in the debate constructively and exchange ideas rather than defend its territory.
He [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/traps/2010/07/30/please-put-up-heading/</link>
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		<title>Why this pale male is shutting up (for now anyway)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Six weeks ago I touched down in London: a born-and-bred Cape Town boy about to start a new job in another country.
While the online smorgasbord of Politicsweb, the Mail &#38; Guardian and Business Day still form a daily news staple, an inevitable sense of detachment from the roiling intrigue of South African politics has crept [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/alexmatthews/2010/07/26/why-this-pale-male-is-shutting-up-for-a-little-while-anyway/</link>
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		<title>The media needs a hug</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ilham Rawoot
Writing a good investigative story is hard work. It&#8217;s not a matter of sitting down at a computer and typing away. It takes a lot of time, talking to many sources, going through documents, research and asking questions to people implicated or involved.
This includes putting allegations to people and getting a response. What&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/amabhungane/2010/07/23/the-media-needs-a-hug/</link>
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		<title>Xenophobia and the dirty politics of hysteria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The government this week sought to dismiss fears of a looming outbreak in xenophobia.
There has been talk since about just before the World Cup that there were rising tensions in squatter communities where large numbers of illegal immigrants live. The talk has been that the violence would break out after the tournament had ended. One [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/siyabongantshingila/2010/07/11/xenophobia-fears-and-the-dirty-politics-of-hysteria/</link>
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		<title>Soon, the jihad may come to a church bazaar near you!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the annual Minority Rights Group report published a few days ago, &#8220;religious intolerance is the new racism&#8221;. What that means, in a nutshell, is that people are no longer hating other people on the grounds of the colour of their skin, but by the kind of scarves they wear, what day of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/kooskombuis/2010/07/06/soon-the-jihad-may-come-to-a-church-bazaar-near-you/</link>
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		<title>Feeding Cope to the dogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In politics, and in Cope in particular, sometimes it is necessary to &#8220;cut through the spin&#8221; of that spun by those claiming to cut through the spin. Especially when their cutting lacks surgical precision and leaves much to be desired.
I was rather amused by the virtually instantaneous return of two of Cope&#8217;s most notorious former [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/mariusredelinghuys/2010/06/22/feeding-cope-to-the-dogs/</link>
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		<title>Zuma family needs to tackle MaNtuli scandal head-on</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reports earlier this week claim that President Jacob Zuma&#8217;s second wife, Nompumelelo Ntuli Zuma, popularly known as MaNtuli, has been accused of having an affair with her bodyguard.
In addition that members of Zuma&#8217;s family wrote a letter to Ilanga, a Zulu language newspaper, setting out details of the affair including allegations that the bodyguard, Phinda [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/traps/2010/06/04/zuma-family-need-to-answer-the-questions-in-mantuli-sex-scandal/</link>
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		<title>Save me from the Meerkat People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago there was a dinner party conversation topic that came up again and again &#8212; how the hell could people love Mo the Meerkat? 

My friends and I would lambaste how ridiculous and creepy he was. We were all in agreement that he wasn&#8217;t clever or funny or cute. Of course, all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/amandasevasti/2010/05/13/save-me-from-the-meerkat-people/</link>
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		<title>Forget ANCYL&#8230;what freaks out South African children?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Today&#8217;s children are worried about more than just their homework and peer pressure &#8212; they are also worried about terrorism and climate change and whether there will be a future for their own children. These are just some of the serious issues a group of more than 170 New  Zealand children have cited as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/rodmackenzie/2010/04/21/forget-ancyl-what-freaks-out-south-african-children/</link>
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		<title>We let Malema dominate the news</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Julius Malema must be quite the conundrum for our journos and editors. Every week he has a print run boosting opinion or reaction to something or another. The man is walking circulation gold. He is also in danger of swamping the national consciousness with his often ill-delivered, though often on the mark, commentary on issues. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/siyabongantshingila/2010/04/12/fingerpointing-malema-and-responsibility/</link>
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