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Unsubscribe | Suggest to a friend | Email the editor The Daily Thought March 17, 2008, 11:15 am Get 15% discount on books All Thought Leader newsletter subscribers receive a 15% discount on books ordered from the Exclusive Books website. Simply go to the order form and use the Thought Leader promo code MGT1. Buy Books... The definition of fun by Bridget McNulty on March 17th, 2008 You think fun is only to be had by kids on merry-go-rounds, teenagers in dark, sweaty clubs and millionaires cruising the Caribbean in extremely long yachts? Think again! In the interests of scientific research (that just so happens to have no ... (Mis-)understanding ubuntu: A reply by Dumisani Magadlela on March 16th, 2008 The concept of ubuntu has been bandied about quite freely and mostly carelessly by writers who associate the term with the language in which it often appears. Ubuntu is bigger, broader and deeper than its Nguni "appearance". I do not recall ever ... Coega and the Radiohead song by Reg Rumney on March 16th, 2008 Every time I drive through the upgraded stretch of road around the turn-off to the Coega Industrial Development Zone (IDZ), just before Port Elizabeth, a song floats unbidden into my head. The Coega IDZ is a multibillion-rand industrial developmen... Designer vaginas: That's what South Africans are made of by Michael Trapido on March 16th, 2008 Ask anyone what it is that makes them a Zulu, Afrikaner, white, black or anything else and, chances are, they'll be able to give you an answer. Ask them what defines us all as South Africans and they'll probably not be as forthcoming. What are the... No-nuke age all over again? by Khadija Sharife on March 16th, 2008 It isn't just Chernobyl we need to worry about - The truth behind the nuclear industry: Uranium mining, Uranium tailings, the enrichment process, the fabrication and production of weapons and Atomic Bombs, waste containment and transportation, the ... Israel and a nuclear Middle East by Israel Rafalovich on March 15th, 2008 As changes in the overall political setting of the Middle East have occurred it is important to focus on Israel's nuclear strategy as the former possibilities of the superpowers to control and fence in the conflicts in the Middle East have given way ... The brothers grim: Enter the Stofiles by Michael Trapido on March 15th, 2008 On the night of the 27th of December 1944, squadrons of Allied B24 bombers pounded Hamburg into dust -- which coincidentaly also happens to be the date that Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile, South Africa's Minister of Sport and Recreation, was born. Left un... 'Ubuntu', the inherent goodness of blacks and (d)evil whites by Sandile Memela on March 14th, 2008 If you grew up in dominantly black circumstances, like me, populated by oppressed Africans, especially in the townships or rural areas, then no doubt you will have heard many mythological stories about the inherent goodness and morality of blacks cal... Caught in a vicious cycle by Reader Blog on March 14th, 2008 Submitted by Michael Tsingo To think that I used to respect cops here! Is it that South African police have been informed to be ruthless and unreasonable when dealing with Zimbabwean offenders? Watching SABC3's Special Assignment on Tuesday M... Kosovo: US oil hegemony, blood and independence by Khadija Sharife on March 14th, 2008 Modern-day "civil" wars reveal that the real struggle lies not in the perpetuation of so-called civilisational clashes but rather in the facade that nationalised constructs, as homogenous entities, have been blessed by those ethnic minorities trapped... Read More on Thoughtleader.co.za