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	     	<title><![CDATA[SA Indians need not apologise]]></title>
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	     	<description><![CDATA[<!--PSTYLE=WL Web Lead--><p>The Gupta saga has highlighted the way Indians and minority groups feel about their place in SA, says Senzo Mchunu.</p>]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 15:08:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Bold plan faces challenges]]></title>
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	     	<description><![CDATA[<!--PSTYLE=WL Web Lead--><p>The plan to make UKZN staff and students learn Zulu is to be welcomed because it has the potential to improve students&#8217;, says Mbulungeni Madiba.</p>]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 14:35:24 +0200</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Who can believe they didn’t know?]]></title>
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	     	<description><![CDATA[<!--PSTYLE=WL Web Lead--><p>Despite all the smoke and mirrors, the simple truth is that Zuma is at the heart of Guptagate, says Max du Preez.</p>]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 11:01:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Tales of heroes and villains for votes]]></title>
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	     	<description><![CDATA[<!--PSTYLE=WL Web Lead--><p>White liberalism in SA has always been well-positioned to write and rewrite history, says Mandisi Majavu.</p>]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[What we CAN learn from Zim]]></title>
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	     	<description><![CDATA[<!--PSTYLE=WL Web Lead--><p>Max du Preez&#8217;s recent column on possible lessons SA could learn from Zim&#8217;s land redistribution provoked an awful lot of emotion. </p>]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 09:51:09 +0200</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[SA’s middle class in black and white]]></title>
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	     	<description><![CDATA[<!--PSTYLE=WL Web Lead--><p>Are we heading towards a &#8220;raceless&#8221; middle class? Maybe heading &#8211; but we are far from there, writes Maggie Wittstock.</p>]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 13:12:24 +0200</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Breaking Eskom’s monopoly]]></title>
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	     	<description><![CDATA[<!--PSTYLE=WL Web Lead--><p>Energy is too important to the economy to leave it to the whims of over-promising suppliers, the writer says</p>]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Wed, 8 May 2013 19:55:48 +0200</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[The sooner the better that Zuma quits]]></title>
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	     	<description><![CDATA[<!--PSTYLE=WL Web Lead--><p>SA cannot afford six more years of Jacob Zuma as president, writes Max du Preez.</p>]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Tue, 7 May 2013 09:14:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[The rich and their opportunity to give]]></title>
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	     	<description><![CDATA[<!--PSTYLE=WL Web Lead--><p/><p>Our lifestyles should be tempered with a sensitivity that narrows the gap, Dr Devi Rajab.</p>]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Thu, 2 May 2013 09:50:46 +0200</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Still waiting for an education]]></title>
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	     	<description><![CDATA[<!--PSTYLE=WL Web Lead--><p>Nineteen years after 1994, we have come a long way, but there are challenges ahead, says Senzo Mchunu</p>]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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