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        <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:48:13 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Submission to Portfolio Committee on Basic Education – Comments on How to Improve Basic Education]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[This paper deals with the broad basic infrastructural needs and backlogs faced by many South African schools, which include the supply of water; sanitation; electricity; libraries; laboratories and computer centres. There still exists major inequality in access to basic resources in our schools. This is reflected in the disparate results between poor and privileged schools, with the latter performing better across the board. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:04:21 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[We can't afford not to - Costing the provision of functional school]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[This paper pursues&nbsp;three closely related objectives: to review the field of international and local research which, particularly over the past two decades, has pointed to the positive causal relationship between functional school libraries and improved learner outcomes; to contextualize the current state of affairs in South African schools; and lastly, to provide detailed cost estimates which can be used as the basis for a comprehensive implementation plan.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:58:42 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[To Have and Have Not]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[To Have and Have Not – Resource Governance in the 21st Century incorporates cross-sectional and cross-regional perspectives. As a Green political foundation we promote a South-South dialogue and aspire to strengthen international networks. The memorandum attempts to turn such dialogues into a policy manifesto that – taking into account the different perspectives and approaches – tries to agree upon common principles and actions for fair, just, and ecological resource politics.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:59:36 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Eni´s Investment in Tar Sands and Palm Oil in the Congo Basin ]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[Eni, formerly the Italian state oil company,&nbsp; is undertaking a new multi-billion dollar investment in Congo in developing tar sands, oil palm for food and bio-diesel and gas-fuelled electricity. Such investments have been heavily criticized for causing social and environmental damage, both locally and globally. The actual study gives background information about the plans.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:49:11 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Climate Change, Resources, Migration: Securing Africa in an uncertain climate]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[This new publication presents the critical themes that informed the debates during the conference ‘Climate Change, Resources, Migration: Old and New Sources of Conflict in Africa?’ hosted by the Heinrich Böll Foundation&nbsp;on the 2nd and 3rd of August 2009 in Cape Town. The conference, while analysing the current state of Africa’s peace and security architecture, focused on the structural root causes of conflict in Africa and on the question of whether the security framework in place offers appropriate answers to deal with these challenges.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:11:33 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gender Politics Makes A Difference: experiences of the Heinrich Böll Foundation across the world]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[In this publication, the Heinrich Böll Foundation presents some of&nbsp;its experiences, both setbacks and successes. It is just a small sample of HBS' work all over the world.&nbsp; HBS&nbsp;is very much aware that&nbsp;its political and financial contributions are often only part of a larger network; yet&nbsp;its work does make a difference – for more gender justice.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:34:43 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Women in the executive: Can women's ministries make a difference?]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[This article attempts an analysis of Women’s Ministries (structures on the level of the executive) that are normally tasked with the implementation of policy and legislation. It does so by looking at the experience of Women’s Ministries in the north, as well as in Africa. It also reflects on the more recent histories in the north of the dismantling of gender machineries as a consequence of gender mainstreaming.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By Amanda Gouws]]></dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:01:44 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A simplified guide to your housing and eviction rights]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[Many women are evicted from their homes by their husbands, partners, family members or the owners of their homes. Often, women are evicted with their children and do not have anywhere else to live. The Women's Legal Centre, therefore,&nbsp;created this simplified guide to assist women in learning about their legal rights to housing and their rights in terms of evictions.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:35:12 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mining in Tanzania: Status and Challenges]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[Tanzania’s mining sector has grown rapidly in recent years. This study provides background information on the industry, its impacts, and the legal and political environment of its operation. It argues for a joint effort of all stakeholders to overcome typical challenges of the extractive resource industry in Africa, in order to make Tanzania the “best performer in her class”.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:19:09 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[SA’s ‘incomes-based’ education system perpetuates inequality]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[IN LONG Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela places enormous hope in education. “Education is the great engine of personal development,” he writes. “It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm- workers can become the president.” Many people know this quote.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By Doron Isaacs]]></dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:14:34 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nambia's Elections 2009: Democracy without Democrats?]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[In his article&nbsp;Henning Melber gives an overall assessment of Namibia’s probably most turbulent elections twenty years into democracy. Sections of this article will form part of an upcoming issue of <EM><A href="/web/144-191.html">Perspectives </A></EM>providing detailed analysis on some of the key issues around Namibia’s 2009 election.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:38:56 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Perspectives #01/2010: Namibia's 2009 Elections]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[Namibia held its Presidential and National Assembly elections on 27 and 28 November 2009. As expected, the ruling South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO) won a sweeping election victory. The atmosphere throughout the electoral process was tense and put to the test several features of the country’s democratic culture. This issue of <A href="/web/144-191.html"><EM>Perspectives </EM></A>offers some reflection on these and other issues around Namibia's 2009 elections.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:31:52 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[People from Mhondoro Ngezi speak on the constitution]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[Crisis Coalition in conjunction with Restoration of Human Rights (ROHR)&nbsp;Zimbabwe held a constitutional meeting this week at Mamina growth point in Mhondoro Ngezi, Mashonaland West province. More than 80 villagers attended the meeting, including councilors from various wards. The meeting is part of the ongoing meetings being held by Crisis coalition to stimulate debate around the envisaged constitution making process.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:21:38 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Will Copenhagen deliver? Aspirations and Reality]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[WILL COPENHAGEN DELIVER? – That was the question dominating debate at a recent seminar convened by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung (HBS) in Cape Town. Attended by representatives of local government, business, civil society, academics, researchers, students and the media, the seminar sought to shed light on the prospects of reaching a comprehensive international climate deal when parties meet for the UN Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen from 7 to 18 December.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/107-477.html]]></link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:34:38 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Watchdogs need citizens to watch over them]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[If we want institutions that watch over our rights, we ought to do more to watch over them. The appointment of a new Human Rights Commission (HRC) a few weeks ago should have been controversial. The new chair, former public protector Lawrence Mushwana, has been criticised by some for a perceived unwillingness to tackle political power-holders. Half the commissioners are former African National Congress (ANC) MPs, while respected figures with no ties to the ANC were ignored.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By Steven Friedman]]></dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:52:28 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Perspectives #03/2009: The Global Economic Crisis and South Africa]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[South Africa officially entered recession in May 2009, its first in 17 years. As the global economic crisis has hit key drivers of growth South Africa’s economy has been expected to shrink by 2% in 2009.&nbsp;This issue of <EM><A href="/web/144-191.html">Perspectives </A></EM>discusses the implications of the global economic crisis for South Africa, and analyses the government’s responses in relation to social justice, gender equity and sustainable development principles.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:27:05 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[On the road to Copenhagen: the state of Climate Change Policy in Southern Africa]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[How has climate change-related policy evolved and what kind of policy development is required to cope with the threat of climate change in Southern Africa? The Heinrich Boell Foundation Southern Africa (HBF) put these and other questions to Arthur Chapman, hydrologist and climate change specialist with OneWorld Sustainable Investments, Cape Town, and leader of components of the <A href="http://www.rccp.org.za/" target=_blank>Regional Climate Change Programme</A>.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-465.html]]></link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:20:55 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Technology development for the developing world ]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[With most developing countries and specifically the least developing countries already experiencing severe impacts of climate change, technologies to ensure sustainable development, economic growth and increased adaptive capacity are urgently needed. Therefore, an enabling global policy framework for technology transfer to ensure appropriate adaptation to climate change and promote the urgent need of low carbon economies is necessary.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-464.html]]></link>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By Lwandle Mqadi]]></dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:08:25 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Playing chess at the climate change table]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[South Africa may not have the power of a swing-vote at this year’s United Nations climate change negotiations, but its domestic emissions policy is a step forward for the developing world. Leonie Joubert considers the country’s position as its negotiating team heads for Denmark this December under the leadership of an untested environment minister. ]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-461.html]]></link>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By Leonie Joubert]]></dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:16:16 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[SADC Protocol on Gender and Development Seminar]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[On the 19th November 2009 the Gender Advocacy Programme (GAP) will in partnership with the Western Cape Network on Violence Against Women (WCNOVAW), and with the support of the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Commission on Gender Equality host a seminar on the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/105-460.html]]></link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:02:51 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Climate Justice: Reversing the marginalisation of South African grassroots communities]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[Hordes of interested parties will descend upon Copenhagen in December 2009 for what has been billed the best (and last) chance to fix the climate, to reduce the world's emissions and save the planet from the worst effects of global warming. Good luck to them, for the science is looking grim. The British Meteorological Office is now predicting a ten degree warming in the interior of Southern Africa. ]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-459.html]]></link>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By Tristen Taylor]]></dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:51:47 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Perspectives #02/2009: On the road to Copenhagen]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen between 7 and 18 December will be extremely critical in determining the global actions to curb climate change in the future. This issue of <EM><A href="/web/144-191.html">Perspectives </A></EM>covers some of the key issues and implications of the negotiations as they are viewed from (Southern) Africa.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/107-457.html]]></link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:35:59 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Civil society and the post-Polokwane South African state: assessing civil society’s prospects of improved policy engagement]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[Citizens' organisations in South Africa may have more influence than they believe - but only if they think more strategically and try harder to represent people at the grassroots. This is the key finding of this study of civil society organisations undertaken by the Centre for the Study of Democracy at Rhodes University and the University of Johannesburg and funded by the Heinrich Boell Foundation.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:13:16 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The RDP to challenge Swapo? Namibia's elections]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[As Namibia approaches its parliamentary and presidential elections at the end of November, Henning Melber assesses the country's political landscape. Through comparison with the evolution of support for South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) in the post-apartheid period, Melber considers the ability of the opposition Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) to chip away at some of the longstanding support for liberation-era party Swapo (South West Africa People's Organization).]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/104-453.html]]></link>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By Henning Melber]]></dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:10:05 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Group of 77 and China’s participation in climate change negotiations]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[This article provides a multi-dimensional assessment of the climate change negotiation process under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, focusing on the competitive and co-operative interactions among nations and regional alliances within the Group of 77 and China (G-77/ China).]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-452.html]]></link>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By David Lesolle]]></dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:13:04 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Submission on the 11-Year Implementation of the Domestic Violence Act]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[Following the announcement by the Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth, Children and People with Disabilities (“the Committee) that it would host public hearings on the implementation of the Domestic Violence Act No. 116 of 1998 (“the DVA”) over the last 11 years since its promulgation, the Gender Advocacy Programme (GAP) and the Western Cape Network on Violence Against Women (WCNOVAW) partnered to initiate a process to mobilize civil society organizations working in the area of domestic violence in the Western Cape to respond to this invitation.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:56:27 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Training and Strategy Building Workshop for African Negotiators ]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[The Heinrich Boll Stiftung Regional Office for Southern Africa hosted a Training and Strategy Building workshop for negotiators from eastern and southern African in Bangkok, Thailand from 21 – 23 September 2009. <SPAN lang=EN-US>This report presents the results of that workshop.</SPAN>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:48:46 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Review Seminar on the Domestic Violence Act ]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[On Thursday October 15th the Gender Advocacy Programme (GAP) in partnership with the Western Cape Network on Violence Against Women (WCNOVAW) hosted a seminar to review the Domestic Violence Act 11 years on. The seminar sought to build and draw on expert knowledge from civil society organisations and other stakeholders in preparation for public hearings to be held 28th and 29th of October 2009. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:10:21 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Climate Change Hearings]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[The Environmental Monitoring Group (EMG) and&nbsp;Oxfam hosted Climate Change Hearings on the 5th and 6th&nbsp;October at the Common Ground Church, Rondebosch, Cape Town. The aim of the Hearings was to suspend the big climate change questions for a while, and take the time out to really listen to the experiences of ordinary people and how vulnerable their lives are to changes in the climate.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/107-432.html]]></link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:23:44 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Climate Change in Africa]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[The African people and African ecosystems with their unique biodiversity will be the major victims of global climate change. At the same time, no significant contribution by Africa to global warming can be established: less than three percent of the world’s total emissions of greenhouse gases emanate from the African continent. This does not even correspond to its low share in the global gross national product.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-431.html]]></link>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By Barbara Unmüßig and Stefan Cramer]]></dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:48:59 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Equal Education campaigns for better schools]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[Windows to change - Over the past five years, Luhlaza Senior Secondary School in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, accumulated more than 500 broken windows. Pupils and teachers accepted this as an unpleasant reality. They shivered through winter, complained to one another and stuck pieces of cardboard over the holes.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/105-423.html]]></link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:26:28 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Towards a Joint African Position on the Road to Copenhagen ]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[In May 2009, African environmental ministers and other stakeholders from the continent met in Nairobi in order to work towards a shared vision and joint African position in the global negotiations on climate change, preparing for the UNFCCC conference in Copenhagen in December 2009.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-421.html]]></link>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By Benson Owuor Ochieng]]></dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:31:38 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Presentation to Committee on the 10-year Review of the Implementation of the Domestic Violence Act ]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[On 9 September 2009, the Gender Advocacy Programme (GAP)&nbsp;facilitated a presentation&nbsp;to the Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth, Children and People with Disabilities by Lisa Vetten, Tshwaranang’s senior researcher and policy analyst, on comprehensive research documenting the challenges of implementing South Africa’s Domestic Violence Act (DVA).]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/105-418.html]]></link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:49:51 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[NGOs name commanders behind political violence]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[Zimbabwean non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have named top military commanders accused of masterminding a ruthless campaign to keep President Robert Mugabe in power in a second round presidential election in June last year that left scores of villagers dead and thousands others displaced from their homes. ]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/104-414.html]]></link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:58:06 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Background and further information on the UN Climate Change Conference]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[On the following websites you get access to important background information as well as to media and institutions that report on the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-412.html]]></link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:58:13 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Green New Deal in South Africa? Summary of dinner debate discussion hosted by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Cape Town.]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[On the occasion of the visit of its Co-President Ralf Fuecks to South Africa, the Heinrich Böll Foundation Southern Africa hosted an informal dinner debate on 05. August 2009 that aimed to explore the possibilities and challenges for establishing a greener economy in South Africa.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-411.html]]></link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:03:52 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Grasping the hydra: Reconciling South Africa’s leading role in the global climate debate and the struggle for clean energy development at home]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[Celebrated as a leader in Africa’s quest for low carbon, climate resilient development, South Africa also holds the dubious honour of being the continent’s largest greenhouse gas emitter. South Africa is singularly responsible for two percent of the 3,8 percent of carbon emissions that Africa contributes to global emissions. At 10 tons of carbon dioxide per person per year, the country’s per capita emissions are 43 percent higher than the global average.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-410.html]]></link>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By Tigere Chagutah]]></dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:09:04 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[On the road to Copenhagen]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[From 7 to 18 December the&nbsp;UN climate change conference&nbsp;2009 took place. With this Dossier the Heinrich Böll Foundation aimed to provide accessible analysis from a South African perspective and a wider range of background information on the road to Copenhagen. ]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-405.html]]></link>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 405 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:56:19 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Towards the adoption of reporting guidelines under the African Women’s Protocol]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[The need to develop guidelines on reporting under the Women’s Protocol is urgent. In developing these guidelines, lessons from the exiting guidelines should be incorporated. Emphasis should be placed on a workable set of guidelines that do not overburden states, and take into account their existing reporting obligations.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/111-393.html]]></link>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 393 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:03:36 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Subscribe]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/48-391.html]]></link>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 391 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:19:38 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Toward a Transatlantic Green New Deal: Tackling the Climate and Economic Crisis ]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[The grave financial and economic crisis that broke into full view in the fall of 2008 has dominated not only headlines but also government and business deliberations. Bailout efforts and stimulus packages of unprecedented scope have taken center stage, as attempts to stave off the specter of a second Great Depression unfold. In sharp contrast with the laissez-faire attitude of the past three decades, the question now is not whether government can play a useful and central role, but what the specifics of government action should be.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-380.html]]></link>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 380 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:41:39 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Gendered Nature of Xenophobia in South Africa]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[After the democratisation of South Africa in 1994, the influx of migrants from other African countries increased dramatically. Despite reconciliation initiatives, old patterns of racism (deeply rooted in the country’s apartheid past) combined with new forms of discrimination, such as xenophobia, have played out through the country’s period of political transition.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/110-378.html]]></link>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By Romi Sigsworth, Collet Ngwane and Angelica Pino]]></dc:creator>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 378 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:08:55 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Further Information]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[For more information please find a list of selected background articles and organisations working on issues of climate change, resource management and migration. ]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/116-373.html]]></link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:47:05 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Interrogating the links between xenophobic attitudes, gender and male violence in Du Noon, Cape Town]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[The intention&nbsp;of this report&nbsp;is to discuss the links between xenophobic attitudes, gender and male violence by focusing on discussions held with both South African and migrant women and men living in Du Noon, Cape Town.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/110-371.html]]></link>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By Nadia Sanger]]></dc:creator>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 371 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 13:16:24 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fix the gender machine]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[The creation of another structure in the form of a ministry to promote the rights of women, this time alongside other disempowered groups, is ill-considered. A more worthwhile effort would have been to fix the problems plaguing the existing gender structures, rather than creating a whole new bureaucracy.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/104-370.html]]></link>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By Christi van der Westhuizen]]></dc:creator>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 370 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 11:18:39 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Climate Change, Resources, Migration: Old and New Sources of Conflict in Africa?]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[The Heinrich Böll Stiftung hosted&nbsp;this international conference to take stock of the current state of Africa’s security architecture and analyse some of the main current and future issues that might have a significant influence on security in Africa (namely climate change, resources and migration). The event&nbsp;brought together political, academic, and civil society representatives from the continent as well as beyond for deliberation.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/116-367.html]]></link>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 367 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 14:50:31 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[ “100% Zulu Boy”: Jacob Zuma and the use of gender in the run-up to South Africa’s 2009 election]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[In a context of heightened political contestation, party campaigns in the run-up to South Africa’s fourth democratic election on 22 April 2009 election featured attempts to mobilise identities with discourses of intolerance. This happened primarily on the basis of ethnicity, political affiliation, gender and sexuality. The intersection of ethnicity/gender/sexuality was neatly encapsulated in the “100% Zulu boy” t-shirt, referring to ANC president Jacob Zuma, that cropped up at the time of his trial on charges of rape.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-364.html]]></link>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By Christi van der Westhuizen]]></dc:creator>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 364 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:15:42 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Let by-elections be by-elections?]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[Since the beginning of this year, municipal by-elections have been held in 72 wards across the country. In the current highly-charged political environment, by-elections are often used – wrongly – as the basis for predictions and crystal ball-gazing about the outcome of national elections next week.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-362.html]]></link>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By Kate Lefko-Everett]]></dc:creator>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 362 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:26:09 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[New era of marginalisation looming over South Africa’s provinces?]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[A remarkable feature of the 2009 general elections in South Africa is the absence of controversial public debates among political parties about the country’s system of provincial government and its future.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-361.html]]></link>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By Thabo Rapoo]]></dc:creator>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 361 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:17:13 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[State of South Africa’s Institutions of Democracy]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[Media coverage leading up to the 22 April elections would leave many of us convinced of a dramatic plunge over the past few years in the level of public trust in South African democratic institutions. Several significant events have led to such dwindling enthusiasm.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-360.html]]></link>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By Shameela Seedat]]></dc:creator>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 360 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:09:43 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Business of Freedom: the Arms Deal and the Deep State]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[The ANC’s clearly articulated concerns during South Africa’s&nbsp;liberation struggle seemed to suggest that, upon the ANC’s election in 1994, the alliance between business, the state (read: the ANC), and security forces would be shattered and reconfigured in a way that would serve the interests of the average South African. However, in assessing the last fifteen years, and after engaging with the insights provided by the Arms Deal into the realpolitik of South Africa’s post-apartheid history, it is difficult to see any significant change in this alliance.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-357.html]]></link>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By Paul Holden]]></dc:creator>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 357 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:22:21 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The elections and the future of South African politics - will there be real democracy or just another election farce?]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[We have an epic struggle to achieve a just and democratic society. Its beginnings were sketched out in 1994. And, although the promise exists it has gone through rounds of betrayal and hope in the last fifteen years.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-356.html]]></link>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By Saliem Fakir]]></dc:creator>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 356 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:03:36 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Report of the Electoral Task Team]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[After being constituted in early 2001, the Electoral Task Team (ETT) appointed by Cabinet to explore alternative electoral systems for South Africa tabled its report to the South African Cabinet in March 2003. ]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-353.html]]></link>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 353 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:07:44 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Mbeki legacy: impoverished public discourse]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[The transition of the African National Congress from a liberation movement to a political party holds important implications for the quality of South Africa’s democracy. ]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-349.html]]></link>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By Eusebius McKaiser]]></dc:creator>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 349 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:53:11 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Further Information on South Africa's 2009 Elections]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[Media and institutions that report on South Africa’s 2009 national and provincial elections.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-348.html]]></link>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 348 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:27:13 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[2009 Elections: A Litmus Test For South Africa’s Democracy]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[Election campaigns in South Africa are characterised by widespread verbal assaults in which political parties lambaste each other. As the election date draws closer these attacks become more scathing, the messages more negative and the exchanges more aggressive. Cherrel Africa examines the implications of this. ]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-346.html]]></link>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By Cherrel Africa]]></dc:creator>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 346 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:26:01 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Accounting Exercise? The 2009 Election, the Global Financial Crisis and Accountability]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[YOU would not think so&nbsp; when you hear the parties debate, but this election could play a major role in deciding how effectively South Africa responds to the global financial crisis.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-345.html]]></link>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By Steven Friedman]]></dc:creator>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 345 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:05:08 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Post-Polokwane Challenges for the New ANC Leadership]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[If one were to write a script documenting Thabo Mbeki’s dramatic rise and fall from the presidency of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) in December 2007, it would arguably have begun with the following caution: ]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-344.html]]></link>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By Jan Hofmeyr]]></dc:creator>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 344 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:18:55 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The ANC as Government: Contesting Leadership between Democracy and Development]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[The South African political landscape is altering with dramatic speed and fluidity, as all that appeared rock solid suddenly dissolves into rapidly shifting sands.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-343.html]]></link>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By Suren Pillay]]></dc:creator>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 343 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:56:15 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gender Mainstreaming – Possibilities and Limits of a Radical Social Concept]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[Gender Mainstreaming needs to be taken more seriously and a topic for society as a whole. Besides legal frameworks, we need bottom-up policies, a strengthening of initiatives that target equality and more men on board to fundamentally change the relationship between the genders.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/111-342.html]]></link>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By Barbara Unmüßig]]></dc:creator>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 342 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:32:11 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The State of the ANC in 2008: The Anatomy of a Political Crisis]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[2008 was a landmark in the history of the ANC. The major turning point was a Pietermaritzburg High Court judgment delivered on 12 September by Judge Chris Nicholson on a procedural matter in the corruption trial of ANC President Jacob Zuma. ]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-297.html]]></link>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By Zwelethu Jolobe ]]></dc:creator>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 297 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:15:24 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[South Africa's 2009 Elections]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[There is no doubt that the 2009 elections were the most competitive and important since 1994. In putting to the test several features of the country’s political landscape their outcomes will play a key role in shaping the nation’s futures. With this&nbsp;dossier we hope to provide an accessible survey of the issues&nbsp;which shaped South Africa’s 2009 elections.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-293.html]]></link>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 293 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:53:04 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Report of the Independent Panel Assessment of Parliament ]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[The Panel deliberations assessed the extent to which Parliament is evolving to meet the expectations outlined in the Constitution, and also to assess the experience and role of Parliament in promoting and entrenching democracy. ]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/104-290.html]]></link>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 290 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:21:35 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rethinking Global Security: An African Perspective? ]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[Today, environmental degradation, social conflict and social strife, poverty, HIV/AIDS, etc. – all of them resulting from or linked to bad governance – have become more of a security concern than the traditional military antagonisms that pitted nations against each other. The main threats to international peace and security are rooted in situations within states rather than between states, and this is especially prevalent in the African context. ]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/116-282.html]]></link>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 282 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:25:58 +0200</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/116-280.html]]></link>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 280 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:16:31 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[China-African Civil Society Dialogue]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[China's role in Africa has rapidly grown in recent years. A dialogue between Chinese experts on Africa and African civil society organizations discussed opportunities and concerns in the Sino-African relationship and explored possibilities for engagement and advocacy work.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/114-279.html]]></link>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 279 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:32:03 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Addressing Violence Against Foreign Nationals in South Africa]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[This report, commissioned by IOM and conducted by the Forced Migration Studies Programme (FMSP) at Wits University in Johannesburg, outlines the political economy of violence against outsiders and the immediate triggers and factors that helped translate xenophobic attitudes into the violent attacks witnessed in May 2008. ]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/110-270.html]]></link>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 270 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:09:38 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Filmmakers Against Racism]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[The Berlinale 2009 presented four movies from a South African project called 'Filmmakers Against Racism', which is supported by the Heinrich Böll Foundation. Producer Don Edkins, whose film 'Taxi to the Dark Side' was awarded an Oscar in 2008, talks in an interview about the initiative and xenophobia in South Africa.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/110-269.html]]></link>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 269 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:15:16 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Women on Farms Project]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[The foundation, together with its partner the Women on Farms Project, aims at addressing gender based violence in farming communities by assisting women on farms to claim their legal rights. ]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/111-266.html]]></link>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 266 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:30:26 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Biowatch]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[The HBF-Biowatch cooperation is committed to protecting biological diversity from the potentially damaging effects of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), by empowering civil society and emerging farmers with knowledge and information on GMOs.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/109-263.html]]></link>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 263 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:06:20 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Demanding Climate Justice]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[Interview with Negusu Aklilu, co-ordinator of the Ethiopian Forum for Environment, editor-in-chief of&nbsp; 'AKIRMA: a Magazine on Environment and Development', and one of the primary signatories of the appeal Africa Speaks up on Climate Change.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/114-261.html]]></link>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 261 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:09:11 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Africa Speaks up on Climate Change]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[Africa is the continent that will be hit hardest by climate change. Unpredictable rains and floods, prolonged droughts, subsequent crop failures, and rapid desertification, among others, have in fact already begun to change the face of our continent.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/114-260.html]]></link>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 260 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:54:31 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Global Financial Crisis and Emerging Economies: Role Model South Africa]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[<SPAN id=IDC3C2E2FD32D745F9B457CBB8852DE3BA>&nbsp;South Africa’s National Credit Act has attracted the attention of policymakers worldwide who are keen to prevent&nbsp;reckless lending practices.&nbsp;The NCR is already assisting neighbouring Namibia to develop similar legislation.</SPAN>]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-258.html]]></link>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By David Marrs]]></dc:creator>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 258 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:07:49 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Climate Justice for Africa!]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[Africa speaks up on Climate Change is an appeal about the threat climate change poses to Africa. Immediate political action is needed. The film Hotspot Africa shows how severe the problems really are.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/114-256.html]]></link>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 256 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:05:52 +0200</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/114-254.html]]></link>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 254 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:51:17 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA["Rigging Will Always Take Place Under Mugabe"]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[Interview with Zimbabwean journalist Basildon Peta on the prospects for the March 29, 2008 elections in his country, the options for the divided opposition and the stance of Zimbabwe's neighbours, the international community, and the EU.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-241.html]]></link>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 241 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:25:35 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Zimbabwe at the Crossroads]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[The atmosphere in Zimbabwe is characterised by anxiety and anger. Since midnight March 29th, 2008 Zimbabweans have been eager to hear the official pronouncement of results by the body running the elections – but to no avail.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-240.html]]></link>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By Jubilee Masango]]></dc:creator>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 240 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:47:37 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[No More Business as Usual]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[An increasingly unlikely, but still possible scenario is that Mugabe will rig the elections after all. This could lead to post-election violence or it could lead to the people turning back to their usual day to day struggles for survival – business as usual.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-239.html]]></link>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By Promise Mkwananzi ]]></dc:creator>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">article 239 at www.boell.org.za</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:41:57 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Inside a Zimbabwean Polling Station]]></title >
            <description><![CDATA[On Saturday March 29th, 2008 I realised that whatever inspired Munch’s famous painting “The Scream” it was probably comparable to being locked in a room with Zimbabwean Electoral Commission (ZEC) officials trying to count to 410.]]></description>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.boell.org.za/web/144-238.html]]></link>
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            <description><![CDATA[The ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and its leader President Robert Mugabe have puzzled many by successively ‘winning’ elections in the midst of serious and unprecedented economic and political decline. What are the reasons? What is Mugabe's background?]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Matabeleland consists of three western provinces of Zimbabwe, namely Matabeleland North, Matabeleland South and Bulawayo. This region, stereotyped as marginalised and underdeveloped, and also as a hotbed of political opposition both historically and currently, is once more poised to play a strategic role in the forthcoming elections.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:44:15 +0200</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[It is a symptom of the diminished expectations and shrinking horizons in Zimbabwean politics that Simba Makoni's entry into the 2008 presidential race has created such a stir in the country's body politic. With the country sinking further into the mire of an extended political and economic debacle, the prospect of yet another disastrous Mugabe electoral 'victory' appeared a desultory inevitability.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By Brian Raftopoulus]]></dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:09:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[A Zimbabwean journalist - one of the few who reports from inside the country and thus prefers to remain anonymous - on the culture of fear and the atmosphere of frustration within the country: "People have reached the stage that if they go to the polling stations, they will not be intimidated into voting for Mugabe. The problem is that Mugabe will instill so much fear in people so that they will be too scared to go the polling stations."]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:59:52 +0200</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Zimbabwean struggle for democracy looks set to continue for some time to come. The MDC-T needs to ensure that future rounds of mediation will take place within a more equitable, framework.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[By Keren Ben-Zeev]]></dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:14:43 +0200</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[With a&nbsp;combination of background articles and opinion pieces the Zimbabwe Elections 2008 Dossier&nbsp;aimed to contribute to a better understanding of the events around the 2008 elections in Zimbabwe.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Heinrich Böll is one of the most important and best-known writers of the Federal Republic of Germany. "Bound by the times and my contemporaries, to what my generation has lived through, experienced, seen, and heard," as he himself wrote, he was the critical chronicler of Germany’s history at mid-century.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Heinrich Böll Foundation is part of the Green political movement that has developed worldwide as a response to the traditional politics of socialism, liberalism, and conservatism. Our main tenets are ecology and sustainability, democracy and human rights, self-determination and justice. We place particular emphasis on gender democracy, meaning social emancipation and equal rights for women and men. We are also committed to equal rights for cultural and ethnic minorities and to the societal and political participation of immigrants. Finally, we promote non-violence and proactive peace policies.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Heinrich Boell Foundation has been active in Southern Africa since 1989. For many organisations and individuals, we have become a partner for civic education and formation of networks, provider of international contacts, observer and analyst in the region.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Leonie Joubert, a renowned journalist and photographer, reports on the impact of climate change in South Africa. Her essay is accompanied by striking photographs of&nbsp; South Africa’s vulnerable landscapes and of the people depending on them for their livelihoods.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Perspectives is a publication of the regional office of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung in Southern Africa. With this new publication, we intend to let experts from Southern Africa express their views about current political issues in their region. ]]></description>
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