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		<title>Notes on a Crushed Protest</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The media dubbed it the “Battle of Rondebosch Common” but only the police used force. What you really need to know is the opportunistic mayor of Cape Town, Patricia De Lille, fucked up big time. She could have ignored the planned People’s Summit and let it collapse through internal contradictions and organizational failure (as so many protests unfortunately do). Nobody would have noticed except the Neighbourhood Watches and the Ratepayers Associations bent on keeping the poor out of the area.]]></description>
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		<title>Root for the Villain</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bianca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago Queen&#8217;s rapper/producer J-Zone&#8217;s 2002 release &#8220;Pimps don&#8217;t pay taxes&#8221; became the soundtrack to my life. Complete with stories of failed attempts at macking, cock blockers and dissing judgemental headwrap chicks, who were all too prevalent at hip hop parties on Long Street. The album spoke to my younger self more than any of the so-called conscious raps that were still popular at the time. With the exception of a few colabs I heard over the]]></description>
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		<title>Take Back the Common</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Friday communities around the Cape will march from Athlone stadium to Rondebosch commons for a three day ‘<a href="http://www.csc.za.net/takethecommon/index.htm" target="_blank">occupation</a>’. The aim is a public space to discuss solutions to a range of issues: housing, rent arrears, evictions, political corruption and the ongoing segregation in the city.
The chosen site is loaded with historical symbolism. Used once as a military camp by colonial authorities, it was racially integrated before the mass erasures of the Group Areas act. The community]]></description>
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		<title>Be Original, Don&#8217;t Be Dismal</title>
		<link>http://www.mahala.co.za/music/be-original-dont-be-dismal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toya Delazy is a busy, young woman. I’ve been given twenty minutes to talk to her, over the phone, while a minder from Sony Music listens in on the line. She sounds excited, if not a little overwhelmed. For people who haven’t been in and around the Durban music scene, Toya Delazy’s jump to South Africa’s musical mainframe may seem a little sudden. From relative nothingness, this young jazz student now has a music video “Pump It On” on high]]></description>
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		<title>Doggone Snowblindness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bianca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a story about empathy. I saw a headline “Gardener ‘raped’ employer’s dog” and my spider sense tingled. Unusual, gonzo, attention-grabbing. There’s race in there, animal sex, class and the suburbs. Things I can write about. Right up my alley. “A 54-year old Pretoria gardener has been denied bail after he allegedly raped his employer’s Dachshund bitch.” He did the dog in a Wendy House. It writes itself. 
There are any number of angles: the indignity of the working]]></description>
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		<title>Roofies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bianca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stepping out of the tiny lift in a nondescript building on Loop Street, Amy was surprised to be in, what appeared to be someone’s lounge, complete with couches and coffee table. The room was small with the lift and a door to her right, being the only obvious points of exit. She felt as if she was stuck inside of a surreal, text-based video game from the 80s.
You find yourself in a room. There are couches to the north,]]></description>
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		<title>Fucking Hell &#124; An Interview with Cameron Platter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bianca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Durban-based artist Cameron Platter is (in)famous within the South African contemporary art community for his biting satire of contemporary popular culture. Featuring trademark Afro-bling styling and politically incorrect struggle-art appropriation, Platter&#8217;s painstaking pencil-crayon drawings, jagged flash animations, wooden sculptures and ceramics feature secret lairs, zebras-from-space, pornography, penis enlargements, Rorke&#8217;s Drift and Kentucky Fried Chicken. Linda Stupart talks to him about his new show, John Muafengejo, being a Michaelis Graduate and the future.
Mahala: Some time ago I referred to you]]></description>
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		<title>Who Ate My Chicken?!</title>
		<link>http://www.mahala.co.za/art/who-ate-my-chicken/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[*Illustration © <a href="http://scmt-ali.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Alastair Laird</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>31 Million Reasons</title>
		<link>http://www.mahala.co.za/movies/31-million-reasons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bianca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t know precisely where the artistic impulse for endless local crime fiction emerged. It’s much easier to see its dark inspiration in the seething, throbbing streets of South Africa. This place is ostensibly, in the phrase of Mike Nicol, “killer country”. Full of chaos and questless violence, it’s the kind of place where a character of his can cough out (quilled in archetypal genre language: nasty, brutish, short) “You want to kill anybody, you take them to South Africa.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>Drug Mules</title>
		<link>http://www.mahala.co.za/culture/drug-mules/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bianca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Black Market Eucharist for the 21st Century
The population of Ecuador is Roman Catholic. As much as 95% in the CIA World Factbook. So it’s a safe bet that the 48-year old Ecuadorian man who was arrested at OR Tambo airport on Christmas day and who, according to News24, “during excretion (in custody) let off plastic containers that had liquid cocaine” was himself a believer. If he was a believer he would have experienced the Eucharist which is, as]]></description>
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