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		<title>Ex-inmate&#8217;s memoir unfolds as book by Rusana Philander</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What started out as a simple memoir he was planning to leave his grandchildren one day has now developed into a book, written by Dr Sedick Isaacs, 72. Isaacs was a political activist and prisoner incarcerated on Robben Island in 1963, for 12 years. However, in 1969 his sentence was increased for operating a pirate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tina tantrum: official dumped</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 14:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 6 2012 at 09:36am By Donwald Pressly. Comment on this story Independent Newspapers Declaring that her ministry was not “a Hollywood” set, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson instigated a trail of destruction through her department on Friday by suspending the acting deputy director-general in charge of the fisheries sub-department, allegedly on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The forgotten toll road by John GI Clarke</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 12:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: http://www.timeslive.co.za/sundaytimes/2012/05/06/the-forgotten-toll-road by John GI Clarke &#124; 06 May, 2012 00:54 Until South Africa heeds the lessons from e-tolling nightmares in Gauteng and beyond, it will be condemned to repeat them The Gauteng e-tolling saga has become a disaster of titanic proportions for Sanral CEO Nazir Alli. A century after the sinking of the supposedly unsinkable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gumede ahead of his time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an edited vertion of address by the ANC president, Jacob Zuma, at the memorial lecture for the organisation&#8217;s fourth president, Josiah Tshangana Gumede. We meet here during the most important month in the history of our country – April, our Freedom Month, when we celebrate the birth of democracy and freedom in South [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does ‘Country Of My Skull’ truly capture the transformation from Apartheid?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The beginning of the end Since the release from incarceration in 1990 after more than a quarter of a decade behind bars South Africa has undergone a dramatic transformation. What ensued in the subsequent years was one of the most dramatic occurrences in recent world history with the dismantling of the oppressive system of apartheid. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biko, Black Consciousness, and &#8216;the System&#8217; eZinyoka: Oral History and Black Consciousness in Practice in a Rural Ciskei Village by Leslie Hadfield</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published in South African Historical Journal Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t793706093 Click here to read or download pdf: Biko, Black Consciousness, and &#8216;the System&#8217; eZinyoka: Oral History and Black Consciousness in Practice in a Rural Ciskei Village by Leslie Hadfielda Michigan State University, USA Online publication date: 25 May 2010]]></description>
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		<title>White-on-white violence: The 1922 Rand Revolution by Rodney Warwick</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rodney Warwick writes on another significant anniversary, ignored by the ANC Introduction No single internal military operation within this country&#8217;s history, matches the ferocity of the events on the Witwatersrand, now Gauteng, ninety years ago this week. But this important event in South African history &#8211; like the centenary of the Union of South Africa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SACP and Nzimande – Not a Class Act &#8211; Martin Jansen</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to Rapule Tamane’s “The strident tune of a one-man band” (M&#38;G 01/08/2011), Yunus Carrim and Ben Martins are correct to argue that to reduce the SACP General Secretary’s apparent authoritarian behavior and intolerance to his “personal whim is simplistic”. As they correctly state, Nzimande does not simply conduct himself of his own accord [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mandela and Communism, two articles from SAHO</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mandela’s membership of the Communist Party: what needs to be reassessed? by Tom Lodge The evidence that Stephen Ellis refers to about Mandela’s membership of the Communist Party is pretty definitive. It is based upon recollections of party members some of whose testimony is derived from first hand experience. Joe Matthews was a member of [...]]]></description>
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