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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Bagpipes and Chopsticks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published in SA Soldier, June 2009<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mandyfreeman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5963122&amp;post=83&amp;subd=mandyfreeman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>South Africa’s Space Race</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A rich history clouded in mystery tells the story of a top-secret space programme that was run in the 1980s. Closing down just before the1994 elections leaves many questions unanswered, at the dawning of a South African Space Agency. Mandy Freeman investigates.       Russia leads. It’s the year 1957 and Spudnik 1 is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mandyfreeman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5963122&amp;post=68&amp;subd=mandyfreeman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Cape Town growing too fast for its own good?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  This year marks a milestone in city planning. About 50% of the global population live in cities. This means that for many people living in urban areas, their only experience of the world will be in cities. Urban growth in Cape Town is a noticeable phenomenon and there is both urban growth and development [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mandyfreeman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5963122&amp;post=56&amp;subd=mandyfreeman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who owns heritage on National Braai Day?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[National Braai a fiery success or a question of who owns our heritage…   YESTERDAY an estimated 80 000 South Africans across the country gathered under one smoky sky to light their fires and braai their boerewors in celebration of the third consecutive National Braai Day. CEO of National Braai Day, Jan Scannell explains that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mandyfreeman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5963122&amp;post=38&amp;subd=mandyfreeman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Endings and Beginnings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Darkness fills my heart; it feels strange yet reassuring. I look down at the bottle of painkillers in my hand and suddenly wonder how it has come to this. I feel empty inside. I am devoid of any emotion. I’ve forgotten how to feel, how to love, how to live. But looking at the painkillers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mandyfreeman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5963122&amp;post=36&amp;subd=mandyfreeman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stepping into the closet</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  &#8220;…but the concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their stomach is that most terrible and terrifying of all human notions, love.&#8221; Stephen Fry     I carefully pull up my lacy stay-ups. Readjusting my sexy bra, I glance in the rearview mirror [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mandyfreeman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5963122&amp;post=27&amp;subd=mandyfreeman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Corner in the North</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heavy swirls of mist float across the road. It’s dark and the increasing number of cars that pass without their headlights on is surprising. A great sense of freedom is encompassed by the wide expanse of rolling hills on either side road. The radio station is lost to static and a welcoming silence fills the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mandyfreeman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5963122&amp;post=14&amp;subd=mandyfreeman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the Road with GABS3 WP</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was a creative exercise, given to the class to get us back into writing after our vac. Given a phrase, we had a week to conceptualise, research and write a 2000 word article. The phrase I worked with was "on the road" and thus became a feature about public transport. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mandyfreeman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5963122&amp;post=8&amp;subd=mandyfreeman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conversations in her head</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The black cursor taunted her. A steady pulse that flickered backed at her, refusing to move. If she stared at it long enough, a thought might come to mind, one which could be typed quickly before lost.   The sound of the children’s laughter wafted in through the open window. She longed to be out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mandyfreeman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5963122&amp;post=5&amp;subd=mandyfreeman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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