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		<title>Potential Outcome of COP17: The &#8216;Greedy Corporate Fund&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michelle Pressend As the 17th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change starts winding up, people all over the world are being told to reign in their expectations. COP 17 will likely not result in a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, but does look set to become the launch pad for the new <a href="http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/potential-outcome-of-cop17-the-greedy-corporate-fund/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zoetendal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7784176&amp;post=721&amp;subd=zoetendal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Really South Africa&#8217;s Foreign Policy &#8216;Master&#8217;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[SA Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Dale T. McKinley If one has been relying solely on more recent mainstream press coverage and associated NGO-academic interpretations to understand and analyse South Africa’s foreign policy/diplomacy then it would only be a slight exaggeration to say that the overwhelming conclusion would have to be that China has become our new foreign ‘master’. Whether it’s <a href="http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/whos-really-south-africas-foreign-policy-master/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zoetendal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7784176&amp;post=716&amp;subd=zoetendal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Euro and Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Euro]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fighting elections and trying to save the Euro are two issues that are difficult for Sarkozy and Merkel to address simultaneously. That is why there doesn&#8217;t seem to be a solution. Europeans need to understand that the party is over. You cannot go on financing benefits by amassing new public debt indefinitely. Parties in coalition <a href="http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/the-euro-and-europe/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zoetendal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7784176&amp;post=705&amp;subd=zoetendal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Its Time to Take a Hard-nosed Look at the Problems South African Youth Face</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winfried</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Frank Meintjies Each year during June the focus turns to youth and the role that youth played in the struggle to end apartheid. This appreciation must advance beyond nostalgia, and should inform a hard-nosed focus on youth to have a more decisive influence on socio-economic development in South Africa. Youth in South Africa today face <a href="http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/its-time-to-take-a-hard-nosed-look-at-the-problems-south-african-youth-face/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zoetendal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7784176&amp;post=702&amp;subd=zoetendal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Secrecy Bill: Speak Now or Forever be Gagged</title>
		<link>http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/the-secrecy-bill-speak-now-or-forever-be-gagged/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Protection of Information Bill]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dale T. McKinley I have no doubt that there are many people (besides myself) who have temporarily entertained the thought of publicly expressing their opposition to the marriage of certain acquaintances/ friends/family members at that point in those ceremonies when the officiator asks if there is ‘anyone who has reason … to speak or forever <a href="http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/the-secrecy-bill-speak-now-or-forever-be-gagged/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zoetendal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7784176&amp;post=699&amp;subd=zoetendal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On State Violence</title>
		<link>http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/on-state-violence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 15:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winfried</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Police Brutality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Richard Pithouse The sickening detail of how Andries Tatane was steadily murdered by the police in Ficksburg, shirtless, bleeding and bewildered, blow after blow after blow, has become a national memory. The television image from the next night’s news, showing Julius Malema striding into the High Court in Johannesburg with a suited private militia carrying M14 assault <a href="http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/on-state-violence/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zoetendal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7784176&amp;post=696&amp;subd=zoetendal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fracking Up the Karoo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 09:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winfried</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gas Exploration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Glenn Ashton The potential presence of natural gas deep beneath the surface of the Karoo has triggered a national hullabaloo. It is not the gas itself that is controversial; it is the proposed method of liberating it in commercially viable quantities, which has everybody up in arms. If you asked most South Africans around the <a href="http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/fracking-up-the-karoo/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zoetendal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7784176&amp;post=693&amp;subd=zoetendal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cape Town and South Africa Host World Water Day 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Glenn Ashton It is appropriate that Cape Town has been selected as the designated global focal point for this year&#8217;s UN sponsored World Water Day on the 22nd of March. South Africa faces serious threats from its increasingly scarce water supplies. We are one of the world&#8217;s most water-stressed nations and have much in common <a href="http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/cape-town-and-south-africa-host-world-water-day-2011/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zoetendal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7784176&amp;post=691&amp;subd=zoetendal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Autumn Equinox 21st of March 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winfried</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This satellite image is from the NERC Satellite Receiving Station at Dundee University in Scotland. Filed under: Weather Satellite Pictures<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zoetendal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7784176&amp;post=685&amp;subd=zoetendal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mugabe&#8217;s Tunisia Day Will Come</title>
		<link>http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/mugabes-tunisia-day-will-come/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 08:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winfried</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Swaziland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tunesia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Imraan Buccus People&#8217;s power has arrived in Africa and, as some have recently argued, it&#8217;s not just Africa north of the Sahara in which the democratic spirit is stirring. The thrilling political earthquake that began in Tunisia, exploded into Egypt and then rippled out to Libya is set to leave lasting changes in its <a href="http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/mugabes-tunisia-day-will-come/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zoetendal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7784176&amp;post=682&amp;subd=zoetendal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rising Food Prices Require Political Response</title>
		<link>http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/rising-food-prices-require-political-response/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Food Security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rising Food Prices Require Political Response By Saliem Fakir The world finds itself back where it was in mid-2008 when food prices skyrocketed causing untold harm to the vulnerable. In the last six months there has been a massive increase in prices for most essential food commodities. Food and being able to eat properly is <a href="http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/rising-food-prices-require-political-response/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zoetendal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7784176&amp;post=672&amp;subd=zoetendal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The World Remade</title>
		<link>http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/the-world-remade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The World Remade By Richard Pithouse As the first unconfirmed reports of airborne attacks on protestors in Tripoli and Benghazi reached Al Jazeera the station crossed to a spokesperson for the European Union. There was talk of the need to affirm ‘European values’. Moments later the programme cut away to the story of the two Libyan <a href="http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/the-world-remade/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zoetendal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7784176&amp;post=670&amp;subd=zoetendal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revolution Comes Like a Thief in the Night</title>
		<link>http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/revolution-comes-like-a-thief-in-the-night/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winfried</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tunesia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Revolution Comes Like a Thief in the Night By Richard Pithouse Life, ordinary life, is meant to follow certain rhythms. We grow, seasons change and we assume new positions in the world. When you have finished being a child you put away childish things and move on to the next stage of life. But there is <a href="http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/revolution-comes-like-a-thief-in-the-night/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zoetendal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7784176&amp;post=667&amp;subd=zoetendal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8216;Gatvol&#8217; Factor</title>
		<link>http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/the-gatvol-factor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winfried</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8216;Gatvol&#8217; Factor By Jane Duncan In a recent opinion piece entitled &#8216;A threefold crisis, but Zuma is listening&#8217;, political analyst Adam Habib argued that the balance of power has shifted towards the poor under Jacob Zuma&#8217;s presidency, leading to the trade union movement and the South African Communist Party (SACP) having more of a say <a href="http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/the-gatvol-factor/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zoetendal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7784176&amp;post=664&amp;subd=zoetendal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On South Africa Becoming a BRIC: Don&#8217;t Get a Brick Thrown at You</title>
		<link>http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/on-south-africa-becoming-a-bric-dont-get-a-brick-thrown-at-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winfried</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BRIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On South Africa Becoming a BRIC: Don&#8217;t Get a Brick Thrown at You By Saliem Fakir On the international scene South Africa plays diplomacy for high stakes. Often in the name of Africa and for itself, but this may receive some heckles from those who know that the game of diplomacy is mostly about enlightened self-interest, <a href="http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/on-south-africa-becoming-a-bric-dont-get-a-brick-thrown-at-you/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zoetendal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7784176&amp;post=661&amp;subd=zoetendal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Migrants and Movement</title>
		<link>http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/on-migrants-and-movement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winfried</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Migration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Migrants and Movement By Liepollo Pheko There are currently about 200 million people living outside their countries of birth. Worldwide the rate of migration grew at six percent a year during the 1990s, a rate faster than population growth as a whole. Better opportunities for employment are among the main reasons people choose to migrate. <a href="http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/on-migrants-and-movement/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zoetendal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7784176&amp;post=659&amp;subd=zoetendal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Hard Year Looms for the ANC</title>
		<link>http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2010/12/12/a-hard-year-looms-for-the-anc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 08:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winfried</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ANC]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Richard Pithouse Jacob Zuma’s ascent to the presidency in May last year was an ugly business, a really ugly business. And Zuma was hardly a candidate with the gravitas to rise above the mess. He was the former head of iMbokodo, a social conservative in whose name sexism and ethnic chauvinism were openly mobilised, the <a href="http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2010/12/12/a-hard-year-looms-for-the-anc/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zoetendal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7784176&amp;post=656&amp;subd=zoetendal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Watching the World Cup in Europe</title>
		<link>http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/watching-the-world-cup-in-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winfried</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010 Soccer World Cup]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching the World Cup in Europe By Richard Pithouse The FIFA headquarters are nestled into a secluded spot on the hill overlooking Zurich, one of the richest cities in the world. Here a glass of coke will cost you R60 at a restaurant. The city, set around a lake with snow capped mountains in the background, <a href="http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/watching-the-world-cup-in-europe/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zoetendal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7784176&amp;post=650&amp;subd=zoetendal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A glimpse of what can be &#8211; Clem Sunter</title>
		<link>http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/a-glimpse-of-what-can-be-clem-sunter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winfried</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A glimpse of what can be &#8211; Clem Sunter (26 May 2010) Two cutaway shots of crowd scenes during the game said it all. I am talking about the rugby match between the Bulls and the Crusaders at Orlando Stadium last Saturday (22 May). One showed a white Bulls supporter built like a Mack Truck <a href="http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/a-glimpse-of-what-can-be-clem-sunter/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zoetendal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7784176&amp;post=648&amp;subd=zoetendal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hope Lies with Strong Citizenship, Not Political Parties</title>
		<link>http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2010/06/06/642/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winfried</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SA Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Saliem Fakir An impoverished conception of democracy has prevailed in our country.  One, which Amartya Sen lucidly describes in his book,  The Idea of Justice, as taking a narrow view of democracy by &#8220;focusing particularly on the procedure of balloting and elections&#8221; and not going beyond this.  In this regard, we South Africans have <a href="http://zoetendal.wordpress.com/2010/06/06/642/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zoetendal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7784176&amp;post=642&amp;subd=zoetendal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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