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		<title>The Heart of Cheapness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best living critic of popular culture, Greil Marcus, was struck by the “primary reality” of “cheapness” in the film version of Orwell’s 1984 (with John Hurt and Richard Burton). “Totalitarian offices were cheap because they no longer needed grandeur; they no longer needed to affirm their own authority. They no longer needed to convince anybody of anything.” 
Two aspects of cheapness come to mind here. One applies at home. An unwelcome continuity between the present the ANC has in]]></description>
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		<title>We Are Not Road Signs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the 17th of February 2008, Nwabisa Nqcukana was attacked by a large group of men whilst making her way through Noord Taxi Rank in a mini-skirt. They stripped her of her clothing, tore her underwear and began to indecently assault her: groping her breasts, pouring beer over her head, sticking their filthy fingers into  her vagina.
Two weeks later, Redi Tlhabi and assault victim, Nwabisa Ngcukana led hundreds bare-thighed women on a protest walk through the now notorious taxi]]></description>
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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>The Muck of Ages</title>
		<link>http://www.mahala.co.za/culture/the-muck-of-ages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been meaning to get out of the house and protest. Marx laid down the law for anyone even vaguely aggrieved with how society is run: “The philosophers have only interpreted the world; the point is to change it.” That’s a pretty clear injunction to get off our complacent asses and see what needs to be done.
In fact, for Marx, getting off your ass and fighting for change is the only way to see what needs to be done.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Wrong Idea</title>
		<link>http://www.mahala.co.za/culture/the-wrong-idea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bianca</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Between 2006 and 2008 Fokofpolisiekar was probably the most influential rock band in South Africa. People of every race have listened to, and enjoyed their music. Their lines were powerful, filled with depth, challenging conventions within traditional Afrikaans culture, and South African culture at large. They took a critical look at concepts such as Tradition, Angst, Despair and the Christian Faith. But more importantly, their lyrics supported the idea that Afrikaaners, and whites in general, are “African”. Being African transcends]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>63</slash:comments>
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		<title>Demolishing Aspirations</title>
		<link>http://www.mahala.co.za/culture/demolishing-aspirations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bianca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Uytenbogaardt’s 1967 aspiration for a democratic architecture was never realized; an architecture that sought to use a building to draw people together, by creating an inclusive space in what was and remains a disconnected Claremont. The concept was to re-connect the marginalized trader with economic opportunity; those classified as white with those classified as non-white, the commuter, the pedestrian, and the private car user. The implementation of the Group Areas act shortly after it’s construction scuppered any chance for the]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>Take Back the Common</title>
		<link>http://www.mahala.co.za/reality/take-back-the-common/</link>
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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>Meme of the Week &#124; Would Not Bang</title>
		<link>http://www.mahala.co.za/culture/meme-of-the-week-would-not-bang/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mahala.co.za/culture/meme-of-the-week-would-not-bang/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Memes are a pure snort of internet. These evanescent time-wasters are the perfect accompaniment to the dead hours of the dead end service economy. Folk expressions of the post-industrial setting of work today. The mind life of bored kids stuck in underfunded educational settings and people in cubicles staring at screens. We don’t make stuff anymore. Not physically. That’s all been shipped to China and India where people work cheap. Work is mind-fatiguing in a knowledge economy. Ideas hold sway.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gimme Violence, Gimme Change</title>
		<link>http://www.mahala.co.za/culture/gimme-violence-gimme-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bianca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The young man sits sipping coffee. He is good looking, talented and smokes too much. He has adopted the aesthetics of past social movements – he is part hippie, part French New Wave auteur – yet he’s failed to internalize the ideals that fueled those movements. Revolution is on his lips, but not in his heart. He has hash-tagged protest, cast-out activism to the Internet, trended change. He is aware, but he is not angry. He is the future, his]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>46</slash:comments>
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		<title>Liberal Smut</title>
		<link>http://www.mahala.co.za/culture/liberal-smut/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mahala.co.za/culture/liberal-smut/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bianca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was small (and Christmas trees were tall), I thought it would be cool to one day, when I was big, to be like Barry Ronge. In my mind the guy had this awesome job of watching movies (and clearly eating endless amounts of popcorn doing so), but more importantly he got to tell people exactly how stupid some of the movies were. Unfortunately as I grew older the fantasy job of a film critic withered away. For one]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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