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Unsubscribe | Suggest to a friend | Email the editor The Daily Thought April 4, 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 deep roots of Aids denialism by Pierre de Vos on April 4th, 2008 For those of us who form part of the chattering classes and have never set foot in a rural village -- except perhaps to take tourist pictures -- South Africa can be a very confusing and perplexing place. I have wondered for a long time, for example, ... Would you like your own personal paparazzi? by Bridget McNulty on April 4th, 2008 You can have it! For a fee. I've written about Springwise (www.springwise.com) before, one of my favourite websites for innovative ideas. It sends out a newsletter each week with the hottest business spottings from around the world. Sometimes t... The illusion of engagement: My chat with Downing Street by Mohamed Nanabhay on April 4th, 2008 The first thing that popped up in my RSS reader on Tuesday morning was a post from Richard Sambrook who noted that the prime minister's office in Britain had not only started to Twitter its press-release notices, but was also responding to questi... ANCYL leadership contest: Shades of Polokwane? by Michael Trapido on April 3rd, 2008 Another page in the voting nasty annals of African politics is being written in the sacred halls of the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein -- home of the brave and the land where you are free to pee in your soup. The ANC Youth League (ANCYL... Zimbabwe: In the icebox by Khadija Sharife on April 3rd, 2008 It makes no difference that Zanu-PF's former finance minister turned presidential candidate Simba Makoni presided over hell as it was being constructed. His too-late platitudes have already secured for him the perpetually vacant and august position t... Christianity owes us by Jarred Cinman on April 3rd, 2008 I am often accused of fighting a battle that's already been conceded with organised religion. In fact, this is the criticism levelled at many anti-religious thinkers: basically, that we're beating a dead horse. Religion has moved on from its horrible... Meeting Mandela: The concept of legacy by Mandela Rhodes Scholars on April 3rd, 2008 Submitted by Zdena Mtetwa Many of us have attended those sessions where we are asked "What inspires you?" or "Who is your role model?" Sometimes we settle for the ones that are closer home, like "my mother". Of course, some, if n... Pilger's contrasts make him credible by Guy Berger on April 3rd, 2008 Pic: Pilger with Guy Berger Crusading journo John Pilger confronted some contradictions last week -- and came out well on top of them. In Grahamstown to collect an honorary doctorate from Rhodes University, the angry Australian who champio... And the winner is ... by Bridget McNulty on April 3rd, 2008 ... East Coast Radio! No, not entirely. But they did sweep a good three or four categories (including best new blog, the one for which I was nominated! Sob!) and I'm guessing there's going to be a backlash of bitter blog posts this morning. It'... Africa's big blogging bang by Arthur Goldstuck on April 3rd, 2008 New statistics show that the big bang of blogging activity that began in South Africa in 2007 has been echoed by the emergence of blogging as a high-profile phenomenon in the rest of Africa. The April-July tipping point in social media in South Afric... Read More on Thoughtleader.co.za