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		<title>If you like Bob so much, why don&#8217;t you keep him?</title>
		<link>http://hajira.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/if-you-like-bob-so-much-why-dont-you-keep-him/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hajira Amla &#124; April 7, 2008
I can see it now – Thabo Mbeki at a Zanu PF rally holding up a large, creased poster which reads: “Mugabe is RIGHT”.  The tail of his shirt hangs out the back of his poor-man’s jacket as he tries to inch closer to his idol, Robert Mugabe.
This is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save electricity now and you&#8217;ll pay for it later</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hajira Amla &#124;31 March 2008
The Department of Minerals and Energy last week announced plans to implement new legislation that would enforce hefty fines on Eskom’s residential and business customers that did not make a 10% saving on their energy bills. The new law, which has already sailed through Parliament and is expected to be implemented by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time Magazine&#8217;s Person of the Year (2006) is persona non grata in South Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hajira Amla &#124; 7 March 2008 
In 2006, you (the general public) were given Time Magazine’s Person of the Year award. Although I still stick to my guns and say the general public only won because the online poll put Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the clear favourite to win the award (and that wouldn’t have gone down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paying for the sins of other people&#8217;s forefathers</title>
		<link>http://hajira.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/im-paying-for-the-sins-of-other-peoples-forefathers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hajira Amla &#124; 4 March 2008
I came to South Africa in 1993 as an eleven-year-old, with South Africa teetering on the brink of political turmoil and change. I was born in the United Kingdom and lived in the Seychelles for two years prior to my arrival in South Africa. My mother is a Seychelloise and my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Africa&#8217;s neutrality questionable over Iran sanctions vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hajira Amla &#124; 4 March 2008
South Africa voted on Monday in approval of a proposed third tier of United Nations sanctions on the beleaguered Islamic Republic of Iran despite their own representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s recommendations to the contrary. 
The Department of Foreign Affairs’ Chief Director to the UN, Xolisa Mabhongo, said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Born free - only to perish on the streets of Delft</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hajira Amla
21 February 2008
You have a one-year old baby in your arms and you have nowhere to sleep, no toilet facilities and no shelter. All your worldly possessions have been bulldozed as per the local government&#8217;s directives. What would you do when you realise that the government doesn’t care about you or your innocent child any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, I&#8217;m a white Muslim convert. What gave me away?</title>
		<link>http://hajira.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/yes-im-a-white-muslim-convert-what-gave-me-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hajira Amla
I am a white Muslim. In South Africa, this is not a common sight, so eyes bore into me wherever I go. Non-Muslims stare at me, Muslims stare at me. Hell, even animals stare at me. I’ve learned to ignore it over the years, but whenever I go out with friends, many of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Political agenda behind church raids?</title>
		<link>http://hajira.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/political-agenda-behind-church-raids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hajira Amla31 January 2008 
In scenes reminiscent of apartheid-era raids, police stormed on the Central Methodist Church in downtown Johannesburg at midnight last night and detained scores of illegal Zimbabwean immigrants. It may be feasible to suggest that the sudden vigour on behalf of the South African government with regard to detaining these individuals could be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I smell a banana - reflections on South Africa in 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hajira Amla &#124; 23 January 2008

Ever since the Mbeki vs. Zuma debacle began, South Africans have been watching on the sidelines as our country progresses from bad to “Days of Our Lives”.
Power struggles seem to abound everywhere you look these days, whether it’s within the African National Congress, between the police and the Scorpions, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing old disgracefully</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hajira Amla
If you think your parents embarrassed you when you were a teenager, just wait until they get old and grey. Senility is the ultimate tool used by parents to repay children for the hard work they did “raising” us. 
Every time I visit my parents these days, I marvel at the way they make [...]]]></description>
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