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Unsubscribe | Suggest to a friend | Email the editor The Daily Thought March 20, 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 Silicon Valley of sun by Simon Barber on March 19th, 2008 In May 1961, President Kennedy addressed a special session of the US Congress. It was the height of the Cold War. There was a sense in the land that the US was falling behind and needed to pick up its game. Kennedy announced a number of initiatives, ... No rest for the (occasionally) wicked by Lisa van Wyk on March 19th, 2008 I need to get more sleep. A smiling doctor in a white coat, with pens in his pocket and a clipboard, informed me of this yesterday evening while I was doodling around on the internet waiting for an email. His picture appeared next to a chart with the... Our very significance by Grant Walliser on March 19th, 2008 I was tempted to answer Mike Trapido's recent question, "Is there life after death?", in the form of a comment on his blog when I realised that such a big question perhaps required a bigger answer and more effort, and hence it quickly became an... Keystone Kops by Ivo Vegter on March 19th, 2008 The police in South Africa today remind me of the "kitskonstabels" (instant constables) the old National Party inducted into the police. Ill-trained and brutal, they were used for the dirty work of quelling unrest in the townships. Today, the governm... Shopping and #@!*ing plastic bags by Tony Jackman on March 19th, 2008 Remember Transkei daisies? They adorned the countryside way back when most carrier bags were yellow, in the days before the shopping police decreed that we should pay for plastic bags in shops. Five years ago, millions of decorative "daisies" were re... From an imperial presidency to the will of the people: Kenya's new dawn by Bhekinkosi Moyo on March 19th, 2008 Kenya has been spared from sliding into more crises. Yesterday, its Parliament unanimously passed into law two crucial Bills that seek to operationalise the power-sharing deal between the ODM and PNU. This was a historic moment for Kenyans as the... The annus horribilis of Africa's last and only hope by Reader Blog on March 19th, 2008 Submitted by Felix Ngasama The year 2008 is so far proving to be South Africa's annus horribilis since its rebirth as a new democratic state in 1994. Things haven't been worse since 1994. This year has brought with it the aftermath of the ruli... I'm a coconut and I'm proud of it -- say it with me by Ndumiso Ngcobo on March 19th, 2008 A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece entitled "Of racists, kaffirs and coconuts" in which I wondered out loud if such a thing as a kaffir actually existed. That was at the height of the "Khoza fingers the kaffir" row. In that piece, I promised that I wou... More online treasure by Bridget McNulty on March 19th, 2008 Remember when I said that finding cool new websites was like tapping into a vein of gold? I seem to have hit the jackpot! Check these out, and tell me you don't feel inspired. I won't believe you. Freshly Found (http://freshlyfound.blogspot.... Darfur not genocide case, says UN special panel by Khadija Sharife on March 19th, 2008 In his essay for the New York Times entitled "Looking at Darfur, Seeing Rwanda", Romeo Dallaire -- once the Canadian general for the United Nations forces in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide -- states that Darfur is a replica in motion, a genocidal co... Read More on Thoughtleader.co.za