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Unsubscribe | Suggest to a friend | Email the editor The Daily Thought March 21, 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... Politics on the couch: Getting in touch with our inner Thabo Mbeki by Chris Rodrigues on March 20th, 2008 "They fuck you up, your mum and dad. / They may not mean to, but they do. / They fill you with the faults they had / And add some extra, just for you". So begins the British poet Philip Larkin in This Be The Verse but his wry observations are jus... Say yay for long weekends! by Bridget McNulty on March 20th, 2008 Have you noticed that most people are rather grumpy this week? I think it's the knowledge that there's an impending four days of freedom, but before we get there we have to climb through a mountain of work, more than usual because of said freedom. ... Fair game by Anthea Buys on March 20th, 2008 I am somewhat relieved that the Jo'burg Art Fair is over. The papers will at last give us some respite from Ross Douglas and Robin Rhode (not that either is objectionable), not to mention the abominable regurgitation of PR phrases like "the first eve... 'Civilising' Brazil's native Indians by Khadija Sharife on March 20th, 2008 While doing research for an article on the ecological state of the Amazon biome (or global ecosystem) in Brazil, I sought to get in contact with as many Brazilians as possible, especially those residing in the favelas or slum regions of Brazil; cumul... A special day by Ryland Fisher on March 20th, 2008 This Friday, March 21, is special not only because it is both Human Rights Day and Good Friday, but also because it has significance in a range of different religions. Human Rights Day is the day on which South Africans celebrate the Bill of Right... 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... Read More on Thoughtleader.co.za