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		<title>Revolution Going Wrong, Perhaps?</title>
		<link>http://koketsomoeti.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/revolution-going-wrong-perhaps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 17:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Koketso Moeti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was 7 years old when the first democratic elections took place in South Africa. I wept, because I was not old enough to vote and wanted to be a part of history in the making. It was a big day for me, not only because of the excitement and joy I saw all around [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=koketsomoeti.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18999311&#038;post=196&#038;subd=koketsomoeti&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Education Being Used as the New &#8216;Slegs Vir Blankes&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://koketsomoeti.wordpress.com/2012/10/16/is-education-the-new-slegs-vir-blankes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Koketso Moeti</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Nomalanga Mkhize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[educated]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last few months, I was called &#8216;uneducated&#8217; on Twitter and following that conversation I received an e-mail calling me an &#8216;uneducated k****r&#8217;. I was also subsequently called a &#8216;dom d**s&#8217; and my education was thereafter questioned on Facebook. A lot more was said in between and I received a lot of racial based [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=koketsomoeti.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18999311&#038;post=185&#038;subd=koketsomoeti&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Should Name and Shame the Mcintosh Polelas</title>
		<link>http://koketsomoeti.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/why-we-should-name-and-shame-the-mcintosh-polelas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Koketso Moeti</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[current-events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fathers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mcintosh Polela]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, it was brought to light that Hawks spokesman McIntosh Polela has not kept up with maintenance payments for two of his children. This allegedly came up following a tweet in which he said that he was thinking of buying a new Jeep, something that had angered the mother of the 2 children [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=koketsomoeti.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18999311&#038;post=176&#038;subd=koketsomoeti&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>North West: A Continuing Struggle</title>
		<link>http://koketsomoeti.wordpress.com/2012/07/04/north-west-a-continuing-struggle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 00:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Koketso Moeti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stench of burning tyres and teargas fills the air and police vehicles can be seen all over the place. The sound of rubber bullets being fired echoes in my ears. For a moment, it feels like I am in a scene straight out of Sarafina, but then reality thankfully takes over. I remember then [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=koketsomoeti.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18999311&#038;post=160&#038;subd=koketsomoeti&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Illusion of a ‘Rainbow Nation’ Finally Approaching Its End?</title>
		<link>http://koketsomoeti.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/is-the-illusion-of-a-rainbow-nation-finally-approaching-its-end/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 14:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Koketso Moeti</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[apartheid]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jessica Leandra]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ‘Rainbow Nation’ recently had its rainbow cracked and seen to be what it is, an illusion of how 18 years can undo over 350 years of oppression and hatred. We are eager to ignore that Apartheid was not mere hatred which just magically vanished when Mandela was democratically elected as the country’s president in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=koketsomoeti.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18999311&#038;post=153&#038;subd=koketsomoeti&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moss Phakoe: We Are Accomplices to Murder!</title>
		<link>http://koketsomoeti.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/moss-phakoe-we-are-accomplices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Koketso Moeti</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[murder]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his fourth State of the Nation Address on the 9th of February 2012, President Jacob Zuma affirmed that the battle against corruption would continue to be a priority for government. He further went on to welcome the launch of Corruption Watch and encouraged cooperation in the implementation of anti-corruption progammes. Shortly thereafter on the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=koketsomoeti.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18999311&#038;post=145&#038;subd=koketsomoeti&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Take on the Verdwaal Tragedy&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://koketsomoeti.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/my-take-on-the-verdwaal-tragedy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Koketso Moeti</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dehydration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is very scary how when one speaks of hunger and poverty, many South Africans seem to believe the problem is ‘elsewhere’- with some even referring to countries such as Somalia and Ethiopia when the topic is brought up. Reality is, even here in our very own land- a country in which the right to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=koketsomoeti.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18999311&#038;post=140&#038;subd=koketsomoeti&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Corruption, Murder and Misplaced Priorities in the North-West Province</title>
		<link>http://koketsomoeti.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/corruption-murder-and-misplaced-priorities-in-the-north-west-province/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Koketso Moeti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moss Phakoe, a councillor in the Rustenburg Local Municipality, paid dearly for unearthing corruption, fraud, nepotism and mismanagement. As an ANC councillor and unionist- eager to rid the province of corruption- he dug up evidence showing multimillion-rand fraud in the North-West province, an act seen to have been little more than signing his death warrant. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=koketsomoeti.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18999311&#038;post=137&#038;subd=koketsomoeti&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joe Slovo: A Community Let Down</title>
		<link>http://koketsomoeti.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/joe-slovo-a-community-let-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Koketso Moeti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We often hear of service delivery protests in South Africa and for many; they are little more than an inconvenience to the rest of us- creating unnecessary strife and disorder in the country. How many of us take the time to really get to know what these protests are really about and the context that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=koketsomoeti.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18999311&#038;post=126&#038;subd=koketsomoeti&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>South African Media, Failing the Children of SA</title>
		<link>http://koketsomoeti.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/south-african-media-failing-the-children-of-sa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 19:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Koketso Moeti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;National Child Protection Week is an annual campaign of the Government of South Africa led by the Department of Social Development in partnership with other government departments and civil society organisations. Key partners include Childline and Unicef. The goal for Child Protection Week is to promote the culture of respect for children’s rights thus ensuring [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=koketsomoeti.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18999311&#038;post=119&#038;subd=koketsomoeti&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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