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    <title><![CDATA[Final article: IF THIS IS NOT APARTHEID, THEN WHAT IS?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 11:57:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Edito: Well dear friends and readers, today's posting marks the end of this blog. Originally created to accompany the build-up to the Rio Loco Festival, I had hoped it would become an informal forum/meeting place for South Africans all over the world,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[South Africans and Israeli type apartheid]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:59:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Edito: Many people, including Benjamin Pogrund, a former staunch opponent of apartheid and its concommitant oppression in South Africa, have fiercely contested that Israel practices apartheid on the grounds that the South African version was a deliberately... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Barry Canin's photos of the Great Karoo]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 08:48:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Edito : First a little biography. Eleven years old, when in the boy scouts, I had gone camping at Bluegill Waters, a farm belonging to the Canin family, on the Springs road if I remember correctly. Our patrol camped in an old army tent that smelt of hot... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Fighting for freedom of the press: Cape Times article by Athalie Crawford]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:23:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Edito: France is experiencing a strong right-wing drift at the moment with mass explusion of the Rom people from their miserable campgrounds around France. Most commentators believe it is a way of heading off the far right for the next presidential elections... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian James]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Convalescence: time to read at last]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:44:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Edito : I spent five days in hospital in June for an operation. Once out of the anaesthesia I alternated reading and watching the elimination matches for the World soccer cup in South Africa. I stayed off work until the end of June and spent most of that... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[intermission message]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:17:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Edito : have been ill with flu for awhile and not in the mood for blogging but do have the next posting in mind, a short account of books I've read since the Word Marathon in Toulouse. Many of these were by South African authors but not all. Watch this... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Graeme Williams, photography]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Edito : I got a tweet message that led me to Graeme William's site, see link below, _ Graeme Williams' site ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Rio Loco continues on Arte Live: Freshly ground]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Edito: I went to have a look a the ARTE LIVE link and discovered, what a joy, that it enables continous streaming, in particular of the concert by Freshly Ground, so get yourself a fresh cup of coffee and sit back and enjoy!!! ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Rio Loco roundup from the organisers]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:07:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Edito:The following report was distributed by the Festival organisers yesterday in French (see link below the article). This is the English translation done by Mike Dickman: Mercredi 30 juin 2010 Rio Loco: Report on the South Africa edition, 17–21 June... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian James]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Further debate and comments on Ben Cousin's article]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Edito: In his latest e-mail Ben Cousins referred me to reactions to his article in the Mail and Guardian, which you will find at : Mail and Guardian site ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Article by Ben Cousins: Land reform in Zimbabwe is not the disaster it is made out to be]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Edito: My thanks to Professor Ben Cousins, who holds the DST/NRF Research Chair in Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape, for sending me this article, which brings into question the conventional media wisdom that land... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Vuvuzuela : annoying people since 1669]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:51:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Edito:Just was we were leaving Abdullah Ibrahim's concert after being lifted along with the crowd into a spiritual trance, a little boy around six blew loudly on his Vuvuzuela before his mother grabbed it away from him and he was led off protesting. According... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Taking on the bullies]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Edito: A number of you have written to express your appreciation of the blog and being connected through it. My subscription for the space expires in November 2010, so I will continue to publish any feedback, pictures, articles, creative writing or other... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Rio Loco Festival : closing session on 21st June]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:17:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Edito: We arrived at about 7 pm in time to catch a folk session with Nibs van der Spuy and Piers Facini in a perfect setting, with sunshine and spectators sitting on the sloping lawns and even whiffs of marijuana on the breeze coming off the Garonne river.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Rio Loco Festival: 17, 18 and 20 June, Abdullah Ibrahim, Thandiswe Mazwai, Via Katlehong and Freshly Ground]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Edito: Pictures of Abdullah Ibrhaim, Thandiswo Mazwai and her band, Via Katlehong and Freshly Ground, which we saw last night. Abdullah Ibrahim is a master of spirit and mood, Thandiswo has a beautiful voice and makes lovely music, the Via Katlehong dancers... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Rio Loco: 17 &amp; 18 June]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 08:53:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Edito : A couple of months ago, out of the blue, I got an email ll from someone I had been at school with and then at Wits University in Johannesburg, Dan O'Meara. it was the first time we'd communicated in 40 years. Rio Loco gave us a pretext for meeting... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Rio Loco today: a debate on the current situation in South Africa]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:46:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Edito : The organisers have just sent me ths information on a seminar/debate to be held this evening on the Rio Loco Festival site. The subject is: "Has the political transition in South Africa been successful?" Speakers will be dealing successively with... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[World Cup by our local correspondant]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:08:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Edito: I'll be offline for a week or so but hope to send you some pictures of the opening of Rio Loco on 17 June. In the meantime, let's flip to South Africa for World Cup colours. Giselle Wulfsohn sent out this last minute visual roundup before the matches... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Antjie Krog at the ABC cinema and Coetzee at the TNT]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Edito: I had already met and heard Antjie Krog briefly on Friday at the Théâtre des Mazades where she spoke on a panel with Achmat Dangor, Pap Ndiaye and Zoë Wicomb. Las night she was at the ABC cinema to introduce John Boorman's film "In the Country'... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Steven Cohen hits Toulouse: le Marathon des Mots]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 08:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Edito: Through my interpreting work I meet all kinds of people, from a seed-line merchant showing off trial plots of sorghum to Australian industrialists to high-level takeover negotiators for global players, but last night's mission was a first for me.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The word marathon in Toulouse: Deon Meyer]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:42:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Edito: After being hired to interpret for the author, I arrived ten minutes late at the Chapelle des Carmelites in the centre of Toulouse, where I was to meet a woman from La Preface bookshop in Colomiers and accompany her and Deon Meyer to a conference... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Peter Hugo exhibit in Toulouse]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 21:44:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Edito : James Munnick, Carol Serrurier Zucker and I were invited to the vernissage of Peter Hugo's exhibit but unfortunately only half an hour ahead of time and I for one was unable to attend. The exhibit is on for awhile at the Chateau d'Eau right near... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Le Marathon des Mots in Toulouse and Jacobus]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 09:23:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Edito : Though I must admit that I much prefer reading books to hearing them declaimed on stage or accompanied with music, which is now the fashion, a lot of people enjoy this regular Toulouse event where you can see and listen to well-known authors close... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Hugh Masekela at Rio Loco]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 16:29:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Edito : My thanks to Diane Saulson (née Wulfsohn) for telling me about a recent show at the Market Theatre. Diane grew up in Rustenburg and her family are part of my extended family. She wrote : " When I was in SA I saw a phenomenal musical show at the... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[South African culture at La Villette]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 12:32:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Edito : thanks to Marion Mésenge for this information on the programme for South African events at this Paris musuem, which you can find, in French only I'm afraid, at : South Africa at La Villette ]]></description>
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