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		<title>Minibus taxis: a lesson in their use and survival</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 11:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Travelling by taxi can be dangerous, whether you are in one or not. But it's also an important cultural experience, if you are into that. But there are things you should know, whether you intend to try one or just to share the roads with their drivers.]]></description>
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		<title>Escalator etiquette in SA: the ups and downs of taking a ride</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Africa has its very own escalator etiquette. Learn it before you get here because it's unlike anything else in the world.]]></description>
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		<title>Professor Mamba and other magicians</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sangomas, muti and magic – in the suburbs. Just don't drink anything you can't identify by name. And watch out for the mysteriously cloned practitioners who change names but not faces. ]]></description>
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		<title>An analysis of the motivations for and utility of rubbing coins against vending machines among non-rural South Africans</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Africans do some pretty weird things. Some we can explain. Rubbing coins against vending machines to magically transform them into something the machine won't reject, now that is hard to fathom.]]></description>
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