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			<title><![CDATA[Audi S5 Coupé: Rings of fire]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[Audi&rsquo;s status as a premium automotive brand has been beyond question for  many years now. But one could argue that the A5 coup&eacute; put the Four  Rings on the map as far as desirability and sheer aesthetic appeal are  concerned. Mixing gorgeous styling with sports car dynamics, the sleek  two-door has just been spruced up. DEON SCHOEMAN drives the fiery S5  version to find out if it still has the right stuff.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-23T01:15:36+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Pravin Gordhan: The man everyone loves to love]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[It says a lot about Pravin Gordhan that hardly anybody rejected his  Budget Speech outright. It turned out, unsurprisingly, to be a delicate  balancing act that other political parties only seek to tweak. It&rsquo;s a  great testament to the finance minister&rsquo;s vision. While the ANC often  gets deployments horribly wrong, this is not one of them. By SIPHO  HLONGWANE.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-23T00:01:18+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[2012: For whom the Budget tolls]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[The tolls are coming! Add an "r" and a plot line about a bridge, and you  have a story to frighten most three-year-olds. But toll roads frighten  Gautengers like nothing else. There has been no other socially cohesive  issue in recent years like this one. Everyone, except government, is  united against it. Cosatu, business big and small, various political  formations, the Gauteng ANC, the DA, most economists... we could go on.  It's probably for this reason that finance minister Pravin Gordhan was  the man Cabinet decided should go and make this announcement. He has, as  they say in the trade, gravitas. It's another way of saying he's  trusted. Still, that doesn't mean we like his message. By STEPHEN  GROOTES.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-22-2012-for-whom-the-budget-tolls</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-22T23:47:49+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Impala strike: Welcome to the age of retail unionism]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[The strike at Impala Platinum&rsquo;s Rustenburg mine has continued for more  than a month. Two people are dead. Many more are injured. At least 32  shops have been looted. Implats has lost 80,000 ounces of platinum worth  more than R1.2-billion. On Wednesday, after Cosatu general secretary  Zwelinzima Vavi asked employees to return to work, a boardroom was set  alight. Why has it come this far and who is responsible? By GREG  NICOLSON.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-22-impala-strike-welcome-to-the-age-of-retail-unionism</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-22T23:26:12+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Growing up in Somalia: how a failed state fails its children]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s rare to get a glimpse of what life in Somalia is actually like,  especially in those parts controlled by al-Shabaab. A new report by  Human Rights Watch into the experiences of that troubled country&rsquo;s  children gives us some insight into what growing up there is really  like. It&rsquo;s not easy reading. By SIMON ALLISON.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-22-growing-up-in-somalia-how-a-failed-state-fails-its-children</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-22T23:13:41+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The critical Muslim]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[It is increasingly tough being a young Muslim in South Africa. So much  of my religion&rsquo;s clear views on tolerance of debate and opposing views  are misunderstood &ndash; often as equally by those inside the camp as outside  it.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2012-02-22-the-critical-muslim</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-22T23:01:33+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[2012 Budget: there is no new policy under the sun ]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[The Treasury should be commended on managing to balance the books during  the economic downturn. But that&rsquo;s all they should be commended for.  This year&rsquo;s Budget called for bolder approaches to reducing unemployment  and boosting infrastructure spending. Gordhan and his team weren&rsquo;t up  to the task. By PAUL BERKOWITZ.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2012-02-22-2012-budget-there-is-no-new-policy-under-the-sun</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-22T22:54:30+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Sex and sexuality in a time of societal malaise]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[Let&rsquo;s take a step back for a minute and imagine a scenario where South  Africa approached sex with the mindset the country takes with drinking  water &ndash; everyone has the right to a clean source, delivered direct to  their homes. I don&rsquo;t think this is a valueless flight of fantasy. It may  add some much-needed nuance to a subject that&rsquo;s otherwise been dealt  with brusquely.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2012-02-22-2nd-budget-article-to-go-here</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-22T16:00:05+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Budget 2012: Ask not what your budget can do for you...]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[Finance minister Pravin Gordhan&rsquo;s Budget speech on Wednesday was  peppered with appeals to all South Africans to contribute to the economy  amid warnings that government&rsquo;s ability to spend its way to general  prosperity are increasingly limited. By PAUL BERKOWITZ.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-22-budget-2012-ask-not-what-your-budget-can-do-for-you</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-22T14:31:08+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ZANEWS: Lindiwe's African Dream]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[LINDIWE: The trouble with the ANC is that they have no dreamers in their ranks. Sometimes I close my eyes and dream of a better South Africa, a South Africa where ...'The hills are alive with the sound of musicWith songs they have sung for a thousand yearsThe hills fill my heart with the sound of musicMy heart wants to sing every song it hears']]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-22-zanews-lindiwes-african-dream</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-22T09:15:53+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[John Glenn and the foregone future]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[Fifty years ago, John Glenn performed America&rsquo;s first manned orbital  flight in space. J. BROOKS SPECTOR remembers the glorious day very well.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-22-john-glenn-and-the-foregone-future</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-22T01:46:54+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ay, caramba, The Simpsons turns 500 ]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[This week saw the broadcast of the 500th episode of The Simpsons.  REBECCA DAVIS ponders the source of the world&rsquo;s affection for the yellow  cartoon family.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-22-ai-caramba-the-simpsons-turns-500</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-22T00:54:48+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Back to the future: South Africa's battle with its past]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[South Africa is a place of contestation. We contest our presents, our  pasts, our futures, our identities, our views, our opinions, sometimes  even our very right to exist. And there are dark times when we wonder  whether even this fair land should exist. Of all the things that we  contest, it's our history that is the most contentious. By STEPHEN  GROOTES.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-22-back-to-the-future-south-africas-battle-with-its-past</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-22T00:45:23+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Delicious irony but harsh realities for Portuguese in former colonies]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[This isn&rsquo;t a parallel universe, but it reads like one: Embattled  Portuguese dreaming of a better life are leaving their country for the  fair shores of&hellip; Mozambique. The decline of Europe is throwing up its fair  share of ironies, but there&rsquo;s no reason yet for Africans to get too  excited. By SIMON ALLISON.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-22-delicious-irony-but-harsh-realities-for-portuguese-in-former-colonies</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-22T00:35:49+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[AfriForum joins Khoisan in land rights fight]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[They might seem unlikely bedfellows but AfriForum Youth joined the  Khoisan community on Tuesday in a protest over the indigenous group&rsquo;s  land rights. With both minority groups feeling they have no  representation in the current government, they might have more in common  than you think. By GREG NICOLSON.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-22-afriforum-joins-khoisan-in-land-rights-fight</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-22T00:28:05+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Consider the Human: David Foster Wallace at 50]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[Had he not committed suicide in 2008, David Foster Wallace would have  celebrated his 50th birthday on Tuesday, 21 February. The message he has  left from his writings is that we&rsquo;d do better to take heed of how he  tried to live than of how he died. By KEVIN BLOOM.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-22-consider-the-human-david-foster-wallace-at-50</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-22T00:16:31+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[DA's alternative budget: Tim Harris's 8% growth plan]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[Slash useless government departments. Put faith in the free market, not  state capitalism. Drop the NHI, it&rsquo;ll never work. The Democratic  Alliance&rsquo;s alternative budget is a big departure from what finance  minister Pravin Gordhan will deliver. It may be a smaller party, but the  DA&rsquo;s idea of how the national budget should be offers up an interesting  counterfoil to the ANC&rsquo;s own plans. By SIPHO HLONGWANE.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-22-das-alternative-budget-tim-harriss-8-growth-plan</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-22T00:04:35+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Cosatu takes anti-corruption fight to Free State]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[Fresh from having flexed its anti-corruption muscles in Cassel Mathale&rsquo;s  Limpopo, Cosatu has turned its attention to the Free State. The trade  union federation, through its affiliate the South African Municipal  Workers&rsquo; Union, fired a shot across the bow of Premier Ace Magashule&rsquo;s  troubled ship on Monday. Magashule is sure to heed it. By OSIAME MOLEFE.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-22-cosatu-takes-anti-corruption-fight-to-free-state</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-21T23:58:11+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The worrisome worth of foregone conclusions]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[In the world almost addicted to labelling or pigeonholing people (as  with almost everything else) &ndash; mostly by strict and comforting  definitions &ndash; it should be worrying for &ldquo;believers&rdquo; and &ldquo;non-believers&rdquo;,  theists and atheists that the &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t Really Know&rdquo; is so cluttered and  so overwhelming.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2012-02-21-the-worrisome-worth-of-foregone-conclusions</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-21T23:47:21+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ZANEWS: The Constitution and Other Fairytales]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[Our fearless leader has a look at the good book, Helen Zille introduces her new baby and hurray, it&rsquo;s Bob&rsquo;s birthday!]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-21-zanews-the-constitution-and-other-fairytales</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-21T09:03:29+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The myth of the impartial reader blows up in SA as loud as anywhere else]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[RUSTUM KOZAIN takes the measure of Erich Rautenbach&rsquo;s dagga-infused  novel &ndash; The Unexploded Boer &ndash; and finds in it an instance of the white  guy trying to have his political cake, and eating it.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-21-the-myth-of-the-impartial-reader-blows-up-in-sa-as-loud-as-anywhere-else</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-21T01:56:32+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Happy birthday, Comrade Bob. Now, beat it!]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[Robert Mugabe turns 88 today. Not having been invited to the lavish  festivities, SIMON ALLISON writes Comrade Bob a birthday letter instead,  telling Zimbabwe&rsquo;s addled president exactly what would make the best  birthday gift of all.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-21-happy-birthday-comrade-bob-now-beat-it</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-21T01:46:08+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[All mine! The Chinese close their first Africa mining play]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s on. China Minmetals Group, the Hong Kong listed Chinese  state-backed mining company, has been trying for years to buy themselves  an African mining company. Last week, they just did that. Anvil Mining  is the first shining jewel in the Chinese parastatal&rsquo;s mining crown. It  won&rsquo;t be the last. By RICHARD POPLAK.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-21-all-mine-the-chinese-close-their-first-africa-mining-play</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-21T01:39:25+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Transformation Minister Malusi Gigaba, the consummate ANC man in government]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[Ever since taking over from Barbara Hogan, public enterprises minister  Malusi Gigaba has worked to stamp the ANC's transformation mandate deep  into state-owned enterprises. On Monday, he announced another project  aimed at fulfilling the government's black economic empowerment mandate:  a black-owned firm has been appointed to be the external auditors of  Transnet. By SIPHO HLONGWANE.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-21-transformation-minister-malusi-gigaba-the-consummate-anc-man-in-government</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-21T01:33:43+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The age of smear politics]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[Ad hominem attacks, guilt by association, and other rhetorical  vilification strategems ought to signal a puerile, unsophisticated, and  frankly, losing argument. Why is it so popular &ndash; and effective &ndash; to  stoop to petty insults?]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2012-02-21-the-age-of-smear-politics</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-21T01:15:44+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Time is money, and Gauteng needs to manage both better ]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[Gauteng is supposed to set an example to the other provinces. It's the  economic powerhouse of southern Africa, never mind the country. It's  where people from the other provinces come to work. It's supposed to,  you know, work. So it wasn't setting a very good example when its  premier, Nomvula Mokonyane, stood up exactly one hour and 54 minutes  late to start her first big speech of the year. By STEPHEN GROOTES.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-21-time-is-money-and-gauteng-needs-to-manage-both-better</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-21T01:05:44+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Let them eat cake]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[An MTV reality programme documenting a party thrown by two young  Capetonians made for nauseating viewing in a country riven by yawning  economic inequalities. By REBECCA DAVIS.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2012-02-21-let-them-eat-cake</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-21T00:55:20+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[America's electoral marathon: the next gear]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[Monday, 20 February, is officially the President&rsquo;s Day holiday in  America &ndash; celebrating George Washington&rsquo;s birthday on 22 February as  well as recognising Abraham Lincoln&rsquo;s birthday 10 days earlier. The day  seems to be a particularly appropriate one, therefore, to evaluate where  the Republicans are in the picking of their candidate, and what  strategy Barack Obama and his campaign advisors are developing to win  again. By J BROOKS SPECTOR.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-20-americas-electoral-marathon-the-next-gear</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-20T09:26:28+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Adnan, the Palestinian hunger-striker who's forcing the world to notice him]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, the Israeli High Court in Jerusalem announced it would hear  Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan&rsquo;s case against his &ldquo;administrative  detention&rdquo; on Thursday. If he survives until Thursday. By KHADIJA PATEL]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-20-adnan-the-palestinian-hunger-striker-whos-forcing-the-world-to-notice-him</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-20T09:05:57+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Black Report, Episode Seven]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[The week that was(n't) in beloved South Africa. Seriously. By JOHN VLISMAS &amp; DUNCAN HARLING.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-20-the-black-report-episode-six</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-20T08:45:21+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Did Lord Lucan flee to Africa?]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[For years the world was fascinated by the fate of Lord Lucan, the  British aristocrat who fled the UK after a murder &ndash; and simply  disappeared. Now new evidence has emerged to suggest that he ran to  Africa. By REBECCA DAVIS.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-20-did-lord-lucan-flee-to-africa</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-20T00:46:31+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Street life: making his own luck]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[In this instalment of Street Life, GREG NICOLSON spends a day on the  street with Lucky who refuses to beg. He gets by searching  Johannesburg&rsquo;s streets for anything that could be recycled.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-20-street-life-making-his-own-luck</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-20T00:34:25+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Sunday Telegraph in Dawkins smear attempt]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[Does the Sunday Telegraph simply detest Richard Dawkins? It would  certainly appear so from the newspaper&rsquo;s clumsy attempt to smear the  scientist this weekend. By REBECCA DAVIS.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-20-sunday-telegraph-in-dawkins-smear-attempt</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-20T00:27:27+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Analysis: Britain's rudderless ride to Somalia's rescue]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[Their Libyan adventure gave David Cameron and his government a taste for  foreign intervention. Next stop is Somalia, which &ndash; after two decades of  civil war &ndash; is ripe for rescuing. Except it&rsquo;s a little dangerous in the  Horn of Africa, so Somalia was invited to London for a major peace  conference that is going to solve everything. Except it won&rsquo;t. By SIMON  ALLISON.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-20-analysis-britains-rudderless-ride-to-somalias-rescue</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-20T00:21:02+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Entrepreneur chronicles: Snapbill]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[The idea for many a start-up has often been born out of the need to  resolve an everyday problem. Two entrepreneurs needed a flexible and  user-friendly billing system for their business and simply couldn&rsquo;t find  one. So they built one instead. Online billing platform, Snapbill, is  one of those ideas where frustration evolved into inspiration. By STYLI  CHARALAMBOUS.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-20-entrepreneur-chronicles-snapbill</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-20T00:16:28+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[A nuclear Iran: Netanyahu's 'Churchill moment' looms dangerously close]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[With Iran less than a year away from full nuclear capability, and the  Ahmadinejad regime unbowed by the West&rsquo;s strategy of ever-harsher  sanctions, the window for avoiding a Middle Eastern catastrophe is closing.  While British and US diplomats scrambled to avert the crisis on the  weekend, Israel&rsquo;s Benyamin Netanyahu watched his self-determined fate as  &ldquo;the new Winston Churchill&rdquo; unfold before his eyes. How worried should  we be? By KEVIN BLOOM.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-20-a-nuclear-iran-netanyahus-churchill-moment-looms-dangerously-close</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-20T00:09:50+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[A man at a miniskirt march]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[Protestors marched to the high court in Johannesburg on Friday demanding  the rights of women be respected and for the end of harassment at taxi  ranks. GREG NICOLSON joined the crowds of men watching the miniskirt  march and wondered about their role in preventing abuse.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-20-a-man-at-a-miniskirt-march</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-20T00:02:16+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Zuma and Malema: changing the rules to suit their game]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[Our politics is a strange land. What do our Constitutional Court and the  ANC's national disciplinary committee and its national disciplinary  committee of appeal have in common? Normally, not a lot. But think a  little harder and, actually, they're in almost exactly the same  position. By STEPHEN GROOTES.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-20-zuma-and-malema-changing-the-rules-to-suit-their-game</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-19T23:53:57+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[What's Pieter Mulder's place in the new South Africa?]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[Pieter Mulder and those who share his opinions are an excellent reminder of just how terrible the old country was.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2012-02-19-whats-pieter-mulders-place-in-the-new-south-africa</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-19T23:46:41+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Healing a nation – lessons from the 'Modimolle Monster']]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[There are potent analogies to be drawn from the sensational case of  Johann Kotze, dubbed the &ldquo;monster of Modimolle&rdquo;, with the unhealed  wounds of apartheid and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. These  metaphors are thrown into stark relief by the backlash following  comments by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Is South Africa open to the lessons  of a comparison?]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2012-02-19-healing-a-nation-lessons-from-the-modimolle-monster</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-19T23:34:51+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Limpopo's communists on cleaning up the provincial mess]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[The financial mess that is Limpopo didn&rsquo;t happen overnight. People have  been suffering service delivery failures in the province for years. The  Communist Party&rsquo;s Gilbert Kganyago advises that more haste is less  speed. The only way to root out the rot forever, he says, is a careful  and considered approach which will take time. By MANDY DE WAAL.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-19-limpopos-communists-on-cleaning-up-the-provincial-mess</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-19T09:54:39+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ZANEWS: Star Wars Ep. VII – A No Hope]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s fight night: Zuma the Jedi Master vs. the Constitution; Racism vs. Misogyny, Pink vs. Blue, and their Word vs. Mine. Plus, don't miss our exciting new gameshow 'Race to the Bottom'!]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-17-zanews-star-wars-ep-vii-a-no-hope</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-17T09:03:43+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Sun hacks look to sue News Corp for shopping them to police]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch&rsquo;s perceived willingness to throw his journalists under  the bus to save his own skin is angering his staff. Now senior  journalists at the Sun are planning legal action against their don. By  REBECCA DAVIS.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-17-sun-hacks-look-to-sue-news-corp-for-shopping-them-to-police</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-17T08:59:48+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The emperor's new theme park]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[Disneyland Paris is so last century. If a French MP gets his way,  tourists may be flocking to Paris to visit 'Napoleonland', a theme park  celebrating the 19th century emperor. By REBECCA DAVIS.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-17-the-emperors-new-theme-park</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-17T08:55:45+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Tintin in the Congo does not break racism laws, court finds]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[No matter who the boy adventurer Tintin took on in any of his 24  escapades, he always ended up on top. This week he prevailed again: this  time in a Belgian court. By REBECCA DAVIS.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-17-tintin-in-the-congo-does-not-break-racism-laws-court-finds</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-17T08:49:21+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Aston Martin Virage: The art of the car]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[All sports cars are desirable &ndash; some only more so than others. The Aston  Martin Virage is certainly a head-turner, exuding a heady mix of  sensual styling, lavish interior appointments and no-holds-barred  performance. At R2.8-million, it also carries the burden of huge  expectations. The question is can it deliver on its obvious promises? By  DEON SCHOEMAN.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-17-aston-martin-virage-the-art-of-the-car</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-17T07:48:09+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[As inter-racial marriages climb to an all time high, the end of America's final frontier is in sight]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[A real sea change has been slowly moving through American society  for the past several generations in which people increasingly are  jumping the racial fence &ndash; or just plain ignoring it. Now nearly  two-thirds of Americans say "it would be fine" if a family member were  to marry outside their own race. By J BROOKS SPECTOR.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-17-as-inter-racial-marriages-climb-to-an-all-time-high-the-end-of-americas-final-racial-frontier-is-in-sight</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-16T23:48:22+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[22Seven, and Christo Davel, in the banks' firing line]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[Drawing the ire of South Africa&rsquo;s financial giants is nothing new for  Christo Davel. He did it with 20twenty and is doing it again with  22seven. His new venture, however, requires their cooperation. Can he  get it and will 22seven be more stable than its predecessor? By GREG  NICOLSON.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-16-22seven-and-christo-davel-in-the-banks-firing-line</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-16T23:26:35+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[It's never a struggle for Klass to bring down the house]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[When an unknown comic debuts, an audience has certain expectations.  Mostly we expect youth, hunger and foul-mouths because people still  guffaw at vulgarity. We also expect it to be pretty lame, because many  comics who are great for a 15-minute slot, battle to generate enough  strong material to hold together a solo show for more than an hour. By  LESLEY STONES.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-16-its-never-a-struggle-for-klass-to-bring-down-the-house</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-16T23:22:04+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Civil society 1 – home affairs 0]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[Civic organisations scored a major legal victory against the department  of home affairs when a Port Elizabeth judge ruled that a refugee  reception office, illegally closed by government late last year, be  reopened and restored to full functionality immediately. The verdict&rsquo;s  message to government is unambiguous. By MANDY DE WAAL.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-16-civil-society-1-home-affairs-0</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-16T22:58:38+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Malawi: talking about a revolution]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[Last year, Malawi was rocked by huge street protests as long-simmering  discontent with President Bingu wa Mutharika&rsquo;s increasingly autocratic  rule boiled over. These were immediately and brutally suppressed.  Mutharika told his people to stop &ldquo;crying like chickens&rdquo;. Since then,  Malawi has been out of the spotlight. These days, it&rsquo;s hotter than ever  and might be ready to explode. By SIMON ALLISON.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-16-malawi-talking-about-a-revolution</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-16T22:33:37+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Should Bubba run the World Bank: Bill Clinton, an ideal candidate]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[The Bank, as the wonks call it with exaggerated simplicity, is losing  headman Robert Zoellick in July. It's up to US President Barack Obama to  replace him, and he'll have hell to pay from Santo-Romney should he  pick a non-US citizen. Bill Clinton fits the, um, bill. By RICHARD  POPLAK.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-16-should-bubba-run-the-world-bank-bill-clinton-an-ideal-candidate</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-16T22:27:27+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ANCYL: Only we can depose ourselves]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[The ANC Youth League resolved at its lekgotla not to subject itself to  the discipline of the ANC. Which is strange, because that's exactly what  its leaders have done by cooperating with the disciplinary committees  that they were summoned to appear before. Fighting words though they may  be, this latest statement is, more than anything, a not at all  disguised middle finger waved at Jacob Zuma and Gwede Mantashe. By  SIPHO HLONGWANE.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-16-ancyl-only-we-can-depose-ourselves</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-16T22:17:51+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Bridges of Muscatine county, Iowa]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[Maybe it&rsquo;s the &ldquo;fire island&rdquo; of the Sioux, maybe it&rsquo;s the corn, but  whatever draws China&rsquo;s heir-apparent to Muscatine, Iowa, it holds  special significance in building new bridges between the US and China. J  BROOKS SPECTOR probes beneath the bucolic country ambience.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-16-the-bridges-of-muscatine-county-iowa</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ogaden refugees' legal claims may put SA on the spot]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[South Africa&rsquo;s Ogaden refugees have requested the police, the  prosecuting authority and the International Criminal Court to  investigate damning allegations of human rights abuses against the  Ethiopian government. The allegations are not new, but the legal action  may force South African officials to take a more proactive stance  against human rights abuses in Africa. By KHADIJA PATEL.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-16-ogaden-refugees-legal-claims-may-put-sa-on-the-spot</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-16T10:53:21+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ZANEWS: Sex, Drugs & Boerie Roll]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[Funtimes with Obama and his China, Boers blitz their own book, Gaga wears white in a tribute to Whitney, and you'll remember WaterGate, now be prepared for Juju's MitiGate.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-16-sex-drugs-boerie-roll</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-16T09:34:04+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[By-election trainspotting just became interesting again]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[There are one or two interesting results from Wednesday&rsquo;s by-elections.  The DA won a ward from the ANC in Polokwane and came extremely close to  winning another. The margins of its success and failure are surprising.  PAUL BERKOWITZ unpacks the results.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-16-by-election-trainspotting-just-became-interesting-again</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-16T09:05:58+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Facing the dilemmas of succession]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[Why is it that people in power will sometimes stubbornly refuse to  understand that it is time to leave? Even when they are confronted with  overwhelming indications that their tenure is over? Is the business of  leadership so intoxicating that an incumbent leader must hold on at all  costs?]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2012-02-16-facing-the-dilemmas-of-succession</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Zanu-PF begins campaign against 'civil society mercenaries']]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[Now&rsquo;s not a good time to work for an NGO in Zimbabwe. State media is  demonising you, Zanu-PF is calling you foreign-funded subversives, and  one provincial governor has just banned the NGOs he doesn&rsquo;t like. Why  the attack on civil society? SIMON ALLISON lets his nose lead him to  answers.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-16-zanu-pf-begins-campaign-against-civil-society-mercenaries</link>
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			<pubDate>2012-02-16T00:49:45+02:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Return of Die Antwoord: The endearingly soft side of Zef]]></title>
						<description><![CDATA[Currently touring the US to promote their second album Ten$ion, Die  Antwoord are hitting some next-level sh*t &ndash; like billboards on Times  Square as the new faces of fashion designer Alexander Wang, and an  appearance last week on Letterman. Of course, there are still the  haters. Which is why KEVIN BLOOM gives (yet another) take on the source  of their enduring charm.]]></description>
						<link>http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-02-16-return-of-die-antwoord-the-endearingly-soft-side-of-zef</link>
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