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		<title>Hani not one to turn a blind eye to graft in ANC</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 06:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Z Pallo Jordan, 18 April 2013 TWENTY years ago, we interred the mortal remains of Martin Thembisile Hani, known by his nom de guerre, Chris, after his assassination. Hani was a card-carrying communist all his adult life and actively engaged in its underground from 1962. The programme the South African Communist Party (SACP) adopted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Broadening and Deepening Rural Financial Services and Land Banking</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 07:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mandivamba Rukuni 08 April, 2013 Introduction In this 9th of 12 articles, I address the need to broaden and deepen the rural financial services sector, so as to ratchet up seasonal and development finance for agriculture. I will offer a pathway to a vibrant rural banking and base this on establishing a regulated but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deep sadness yes, black backlash no</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 09:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 2 2013 By Max du Preez As former president Nelson Mandela’s health steadily deteriorates as he approaches 95, the urban legend that his passing will unleash pent-up black anger is revived once again. The myth has been repeated so many times over the past decade that even observers in Europe and North America, where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zimbabwe&#8217;s Referendum: A Start</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday 18 March 2013 By Knox Chitiyo, Associate Fellow, Africa Programme On 16 March 2013 an estimated two million Zimbabweans voted on a new draft constitution. Polling stations reported a steady, albeit less than brisk, procession of voters during the course of the day. Although some civil society groups urged a popular &#8216;No&#8217; vote, citing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nation state: Nyerere&#8217;s legacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 08:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[15 Mar 2013 Mahmood Mamdani Julius Nyerere shunned populist Africanisation and curtailed civil liberties to attain his dream. Assessments of Julius Nyerere, Tanzania’s first president, are conventionally focused on his quest for ujamaa, a just social order based on community solidarity. Whereas supporters hailed ujamaa as a creative adjustment of socialist thought to local realities, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sokwanele &#8211; Enough is Enough &#8211; Zimbabwe</title>
		<link>http://historymatters.co.za/zimbabwe-referendum-watch-issue-2/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=zimbabwe-referendum-watch-issue-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 07:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[14 March 2013 Author: Sokwanele In Issue 1 of Zimbabwe Referendum Watch we commented on the limited time the political parties have allowed Zimbabweans to prepare for the referendum. At the time of writing this, Issue 2, the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) have released a statement saying that they have lost their appeal to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truth, the first victim of war in Timbuktu</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 07:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[3 February 2013 Throughout its 800 years, Timbuktu city has witnessed invasions, pillage, famine, soaring prices, plagues, the effects of a devastating earthquake in 1755, marauding, political instability, internecine fighting over power, the destruction and theft of manuscripts, colonial rule and civil war. An 18th-century Timbuktu chronicle titled “An account of the deaths and tragic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The elusive quest for Pax Africana continues</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 13:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Adekeye Adebajo, 27 January 2013, DESPITE impressive economic growth and political progress in many parts of Africa, the new year has begun with three cases of instability: the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali and Central African Republic. Three key subregions — the Great Lakes, West Africa, and Central Africa — could thus be plunged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economic creases stand in SA’s way</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editorial: Business Day Live January 24 2013 Africa is on the cusp of a boom in the oil and gas industry. Marsh Energy Africa, a wholly owned subsidiary of New York-listed professional services firm Marsh &#38; McLennan Companies, which has just been given the go-ahead by South Africa’s competition authorities to acquire Alexander Forbes Risk [...]]]></description>
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