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		<title>Celebration of a life</title>
		<link>http://weaverbird.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/celebration-of-a-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You were born a stranger in the motherland[1].
An immigrant amongst settlers, never quite clean enough;
Caught between ease and unease[2], unsettled[3]
You stole tickeys from yourself to fling to the other you[4].
Your poetry almost left you. Your tragic hero[5]
Crouched mindless, half blinded, at journey’s end[6]
Flung between the land of عثمان بن أرطغرل[7]
And mad voices twisted into this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weaverbird.wordpress.com&blog=414741&post=134&subd=weaverbird&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Education after Dakar</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2009/01/09

NO FESTIVE season would be complete without the annual orgy of recrimination and congratulation around the national and provincial matric pass rates.
And although the critics repeatedly point out that poor Grade 12 results are only an indicator of a deeper social and educational malady, at least the media attention gets ordinary people thinking about education.
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		<title>Grade R in a failing system</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2009/02/13
I FELT proud of the principal of Sinempumelelo Primary School in Beacon Bay for speaking out about the appalling conditions Grade R children suffer at her school (Crammed like sardines in ‘kitchen classroom’, DD, February 4). Let’s hope it’s a sign of growing public intolerance of sub- standard education.
We should share her anger at the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weaverbird.wordpress.com&blog=414741&post=97&subd=weaverbird&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Lesson in Poverty</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2008/09/12

LAST week a group of students taught me about poverty and compassion. But hang on a second – I was supposed to be teaching them a course for their Diploma in Early Childhood Development (ECD). The curriculum, amongst other things, specifies that they should know about the grim effects of child poverty, so I had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weaverbird.wordpress.com&blog=414741&post=95&subd=weaverbird&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons in Violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2008/04/18

A WHILE ago I was invited to a Children’s Day celebration at a local primary school. Since I’m all for spreading the idea that children should be nurtured and valued, I accepted with pleasure.


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		<title>The tragedy of dropping out</title>
		<link>http://weaverbird.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/the-tragedy-of-dropping-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2008/05/23

SIPHOKAZI, aged 17, is one of thousands of Eastern Cape girls not attending school due to pregnancy. “They want the child support grants, that’s why they have babies,” say some rural teachers. “It’s called the ‘thigh grant’ because the girls spread their thighs for it.”
But Sphokie, as she prefers being called, didn’t get pregnant for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weaverbird.wordpress.com&blog=414741&post=91&subd=weaverbird&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Network for Optimism</title>
		<link>http://weaverbird.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/network-for-optimism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2008/12/19
ODDLY enough, this week I’ve felt a little more optimistic than usual about the state of education. Don’t mistake me. I didn’t say that education is getting better, only that I feel more optimistic about the future.
And, please note, my upbeat attitude has nothing to do with the education policies of any political party, whether [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weaverbird.wordpress.com&blog=414741&post=88&subd=weaverbird&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Church Militantly against women and gays</title>
		<link>http://weaverbird.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/the-church-militantly-against-women-and-gays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So over one thousand Anglican clergy(men) have threatened to resign if women or gays are made bishops. 
So what?  Let them go, and good riddance. If the church represents Christ on this earth, I&#8217;m sure he would rather not have a bunch of bigoted sexists speaking for him.  
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		<title>My new sandpit</title>
		<link>http://weaverbird.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/my-new-sandpit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new blank blog space to place a blank
Letter (or not). To scrabble about
And play a few fish out of water: “That one’s a blog, Harry,
They taste like mud and look like ghouls. Throw it back, Harry, throw it back.”
A fine blank playplace to knit a net of new words
Diagonally and march them up and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weaverbird.wordpress.com&blog=414741&post=76&subd=weaverbird&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sonnet and yet so far</title>
		<link>http://weaverbird.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/sonnet-and-yet-so-far/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ne&#8217;er, by my reasoned troth, has human soul,
Once, in Eden&#8217;s grove, most lightest and most best
Of God&#8217;s Creation, near&#8217;st to Heav&#8217;n&#8217;s purest pole,
Thus been decried, with damning words infest.
Thine insults shall I bear with patience holy,
Nor turn the other cheek with cheeky word.
The stomping, riotous bossiness of Nyathi
Shall ne&#8217;er the calm Ndlovine peace disturb.
Fear not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weaverbird.wordpress.com&blog=414741&post=75&subd=weaverbird&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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