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		<title>Prim Lizzy could teach thin-skinned Zuma a thing or two</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/williamsaundersonmeyer/2012/05/26/prim-lizzy-could-teach-thin-skinned-zuma-a-thing-or-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 10:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Saunderson-Meyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It defies comprehension. This is a man televised prancing around in loinskin and incongruous white takkies, his man-breasts roiling and thunderous thighs wobbling, to celebrate the acquisition of yet another wife. This is a man with a harem but who is caught diddling with women a third of his age. At least two were the...]]></description>
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		<title>Realising the potential of electricity</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/garykendall/2012/05/26/realising-the-potential-of-electricity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 07:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Kendall</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/?p=13900</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the latest climate change conference in Bonn draws to a close today, the full implications of commitments made at COP17 are beginning to sink in. The nations of the world find themselves united by a challenge that is both eye-watering and conceptually simple: hold the global average temperature increase below 2°C versus the long-term...]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/sarahbritten/2012/05/25/dear-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 14:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Britten</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/?p=13911</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I love you. Not the kind of love that Cardies sells on Valentine’s Day, but in that fraught and knotted way that grips my gut and won’t let go, that tangled mess of love and fear, guilt and longing that characterises all those relationships that mark us most deeply, the ones that truly shape who...]]></description>
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		<title>The economic week in review: More troubling signs</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/mattquigley/2012/05/25/the-economic-week-in-review-more-troubling-signs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 09:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Quigley</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/?p=13887</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Europe&#8217;s woes continued to weigh heavily on global markets this week. A summit of European leaders on Wednesday failed to reassure economists and investors that politicians can contain the growing risks of Greek exit from the euro and continental banking crisis. Here at home, data showed that the rate of price rises facing consumers rose...]]></description>
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		<title>Zuma painting: Spearing the psyche and esteem of a nation</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/jeremiahkure/2012/05/25/zuma-painting-spearing-the-psyche-and-esteem-of-a-nation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 09:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremiah Kure</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/?p=13859</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Private parts are just that. They are private. And even though the president is not exactly a private citizen, his privates have no place in the public arena. Not everyone agrees of course. It is, after all, the way of democracy but it seems even democracy has a nasty divisive side to it. The Spear...]]></description>
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		<title>“A better life for all”: The case for a youth wage subsidy</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/mandelarhodesscholars/2012/05/25/a-better-life-for-all-the-case-for-a-youth-wage-subsidy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 08:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mandela Rhodes Scholars</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/?p=13856</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Matthew de la Hey The South African unemployment rate is currently 25.2%. This means that 4.5-million people who had sought employment within the four weeks preceding the reference week were unable to find a job. This figure rises to 38% if those who have given up hope and have stopped looking — the &#8220;discouraged...]]></description>
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		<title>How can we see from this high horse?</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/davidjsmith/2012/05/25/how-can-we-see-from-this-high-horse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/davidjsmith/2012/05/25/how-can-we-see-from-this-high-horse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 07:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David J Smith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/?p=13852</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are too many high horses in South Africa. Too many haughty opinions. And not enough people admitting to their faults. We need to all climb down and roll around in the muck for a bit. Act like pigs and love it. Admit that we are shit and get on with it. I will not...]]></description>
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		<title>The ins and outs of same-sex marriages in Zimbabwe and the US</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/readerblog/2012/05/24/the-ins-and-outs-of-same-sex-marriages-in-zimbabwe-and-the-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/readerblog/2012/05/24/the-ins-and-outs-of-same-sex-marriages-in-zimbabwe-and-the-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 11:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reader Blog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Anneke Meerkotter The first thing you are confronted with when you walk into the service section of the South African embassy in Harare is a South African department of home affairs poster on the process to register civil unions, including same-sex marriages. Why is this interesting? Because Zimbabwe’s first draft constitution released last week...]]></description>
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		<title>The state of democracy</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/leeroychetty/2012/05/24/the-state-of-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 08:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee-Roy Chetty</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/?p=13819</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is no consensus on how to measure democracy. Definitions are contested and there is an ongoing debate on the subject. Although the terms &#8220;freedom&#8221; and &#8220;democracy&#8221; are often used interchangeably, the two are not synonymous. Democracy can be seen as a set of practices and principles that institutionalise and thus ultimately protect freedom. Even...]]></description>
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		<title>When the defaced Spear is better than the original</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/sarahbritten/2012/05/23/when-the-defaced-spear-is-better-than-the-original/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 14:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Britten</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/?p=13824</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So ja, I&#8217;ve given in. I&#8217;ve decided to talk about that painting. The one that&#8217;s transfixed the nation for more than a week now – even on Twitter, a platform known for nothing so much as institutionalised ADD. It is the PR gift that keeps on giving: apparently it&#8217;s reached 108 million people and delivered...]]></description>
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