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		<title>MANTASHE &#8211; HOLOMISA: Battle of the generals</title>
		<link>http://www.blogs.dispatch.co.za/dialogues/2011/04/04/mantashe-holomisa-battle-of-the-generals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 07:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tegan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MANTASHE - HOLOMISA: Battle of the generals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bantu Holomisa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gwede Mantashe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the next in our series of Dialogues we invite you to a battle of the generals. The secretary-general from Cala, the ANC’s Gwede Mantashe, will tell us whether local government can be fixed. The general from Mqanduli, the UDM’s  Bantu Holomisa, will tackle him head on.]]></description>
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		<title>SA &#8216;willing to accept corruption&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.blogs.dispatch.co.za/dialogues/2011/03/16/sa-willing-to-accept-corruption/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogs.dispatch.co.za/dialogues/2011/03/16/sa-willing-to-accept-corruption/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dawn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[richard calland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world cup]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Concourt lawyer and political activist Professor Richard Calland believes South Africa has adapted a welcoming attitude towards corruption, writes Michael Kimberley. Speaking at the Daily Dispatch Dialogues in East London on Monday night, British-born Calland said a country “gets the level of corruption it is willing to accept”. A poor turnout at the Guild Theatre [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JOIN our latest conversation! SA pushed to the Limit?</title>
		<link>http://www.blogs.dispatch.co.za/dialogues/2011/03/02/join-our-latest-conversation-sa-pushed-to-the-limit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogs.dispatch.co.za/dialogues/2011/03/02/join-our-latest-conversation-sa-pushed-to-the-limit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 08:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dawn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hein marais]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[limit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>

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		<title>Rhodes VC slams &#8220;sushi&#8221; generation</title>
		<link>http://www.blogs.dispatch.co.za/dialogues/2011/02/01/rhodes-vc-slams-sushi-generation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogs.dispatch.co.za/dialogues/2011/02/01/rhodes-vc-slams-sushi-generation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dawn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rhodes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saleem badat]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blogs.dispatch.co.za/dialogues/?p=646</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rhodes University vice-chancellor Saleem Badat lashed out at the youth this week, saying South Africa was impoverished intellectually and politically because many of them used politics as stepping stones towards eating sushi, reports Mayibongwe Maqhina. “Too many of the young people who go to formal politics today are not going there for the right reasons. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dialogues: Zuma now a &#8216;national problem&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.blogs.dispatch.co.za/dialogues/2010/12/09/dialogues-zuma-now-a-national-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogs.dispatch.co.za/dialogues/2010/12/09/dialogues-zuma-now-a-national-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dawn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African tradition in a modern SA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barney Pityana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jacob Zuma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mcebisi Ndletyana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[morality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nyameko Barney Pityana]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blogs.dispatch.co.za/dialogues/?p=642</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Leading black Eastern Cape academics have warned that South Africa has become an “apocalyptic environment” – and that President Jacob Zuma is a “national problem”. Professor Barney Pityana and Dr Mcebisi Ndletyana both issued dire warnings at a Daily Dispatch dialogue at the University of Fort Hare’s East London campus, this week. In his address, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t forget the last dialogue of 2010!</title>
		<link>http://www.blogs.dispatch.co.za/dialogues/2010/12/05/dont-forget-the-last-dialogue-of-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogs.dispatch.co.za/dialogues/2010/12/05/dont-forget-the-last-dialogue-of-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 14:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dawn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community Dialogues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dialogues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mcebisi Ndletyana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nation building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nyameko Barney Pityana]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blogs.dispatch.co.za/dialogues/?p=637</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the next in our series of Dialogues, we present Nyameko Barney Pityana and Mcebisi Ndletyana for two stimulating talks on democracy in South Africa and nation-building. Nyameko Barney Pityana &#8211; Political exile, human rights lawyer, theologian, vice-chancellor and principal of Unisa. He has published extensively and among numerous other achievements, served as chair of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The bitter taste of childhood</title>
		<link>http://www.blogs.dispatch.co.za/dialogues/2010/11/10/the-bitter-taste-of-childhood/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogs.dispatch.co.za/dialogues/2010/11/10/the-bitter-taste-of-childhood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tegan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jay Naidoo: Fighting for justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greenwood Park]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.dispatch.co.za/dialogues/?p=628</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the first extract from his book  Jay Naidoo recalls the upheaval of his family’s removal from their Greenwood Park home IN MY earliest childhood memory I am four years old, playing with just a brick – imagining it to be a heavy-duty truck ploughing its way through piles of sand to forge a road. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jay Naidoo: Fighting for justice</title>
		<link>http://www.blogs.dispatch.co.za/dialogues/2010/11/10/jay-naidoo-fighting-for-justice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogs.dispatch.co.za/dialogues/2010/11/10/jay-naidoo-fighting-for-justice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tegan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jay Naidoo: Fighting for justice]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.dispatch.co.za/dialogues/?p=621</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the next in our series of Dialogues we will host Jay Naidoo &#8211; UDF stalwart, the first general secretary of Cosatu, a Cabinet Minister and a man who has given away one-third of his wealth. He will be in conversation with Richard Pithouse of  Rhodes University’s politics department.]]></description>
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		<title>Paper Bridges: Examining the democratic potential of the Daily Dispatch&#8217;s Community Dialogues</title>
		<link>http://www.blogs.dispatch.co.za/dialogues/2010/10/20/paper-bridges-examining-the-democratic-potential-of-the-daily-dispatchs-community-dialogues/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogs.dispatch.co.za/dialogues/2010/10/20/paper-bridges-examining-the-democratic-potential-of-the-daily-dispatchs-community-dialogues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tegan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Paper Bridges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civic journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community Dialogues]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.dispatch.co.za/dialogues/?p=615</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In March 2009 the Daily Dispatch launched the Community Dialogues, a hyperlocal incarnation of its highly successful public Dialogues. As a series of public &#8220;town hall&#8221; meetings, the Community Dialogues represented South Africa&#8217;s first full scale experiment with civic journalism, a worldwide press reform movement which subscribes to the simple, but apparently controversial premise that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gompo, Qonce or Nxele? The great name change debate</title>
		<link>http://www.blogs.dispatch.co.za/dialogues/2010/10/12/gompo-qonce-or-nxele-the-great-name-change-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogs.dispatch.co.za/dialogues/2010/10/12/gompo-qonce-or-nxele-the-great-name-change-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tegan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The great name change debate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most Eastern Cape towns, including East London and many of its suburbs, could have new names in the not too distant future. Members of the provincial Geographic Names Committee have been criss-crossing the province, meeting communities to get views on the topic. There is even a suggestion that the Amathole Region be renamed after Steve [...]]]></description>
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