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Unsubscribe | Suggest to a friend | Email the editor The Daily Thought April 7, 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... Sometimes I wish Mugabe were dead by Khaya Dlanga on April 7th, 2008 Does that make me a bad person? I know that one does not say these things in polite company. Even in less-than-polite company, I suppose. But I do wish he would die of old age and not wake up in the morning. I think it would be better for him and for... Ten places I'd sooner live than have a green card by Tony Jackman on April 6th, 2008 The way America touts its green card about the world and around the internet in "green-card lotteries", as if we were all desperate to live in the US, gives me the zig. What is it about the "American Way" that is so off-putting? Is it the way Amer... Pregnant man turn your stomach? Have a peep at Thomas by Michael Trapido on April 5th, 2008 Hawaiian native Thomas Beatie, formerly a woman who underwent gender reassignment surgery but retained his reproductive organs, is now expecting a child. Mazeltov! May you only know simchas. I can only imagine the nachos of raising a daughter, mar... Material wealth, happiness and alienated youth by Bert Olivier on April 5th, 2008 A number of recent events in the United Kingdom, as well as the United States of America, seem to suggest that a generally high level of material prosperity does not necessarily go hand in hand with human happiness, but, more disturbingly, that at le... False prophets and 'message' movies: Ben Hur, Hollywood and the Pentagon by Khadija Sharife on April 5th, 2008 The movie Ben Hur occupies a special place in my sister's cabinet and her heart. Each time I try to watch it with her, I get excited and start screeching Judah! Judah!; alternately I push our couch around the house (like a chariot) with my sister sti... Public open space -- my right of access! by Ferrial Adam on April 4th, 2008 Last weekend I spent some time collecting signatures for a petition to stop the development of the Sea Point Pavilion in Cape Town. The development being planned consists of a hotel on one side of the Sea Point swimming pool and a three-storey shoppi... Job reservation and egg on my blackface by Tony Jackman on April 4th, 2008 Job reservation, which ensured jobs for white Afrikaners, especially in the civil service, was always one of the more insidious aspects of grand apartheid, but even something as foul as this can have its funny side. Flip forward a few decades to the ... Champion Chief Justice Langa by Sheila Camerer on April 4th, 2008 Top marks to South Africa's Chief Justice Pius Langa for coming in to bat for the independence of the media and the important role the judiciary can play in this regard. Last Sunday he said that the judiciary should "jealously protect" the... Property versus renting among the youth by Mpho Maboi on April 4th, 2008 I am currently in the process of buying a home. It has been one of the most time-consuming and irritating times of my life; not only because the prices of houses are ridiculous, but also due to the fact that banks make it almost impossible for one to... Thanks for coming. Please be my saviour by Lisa van Wyk on April 4th, 2008 Like almost everyone I know, I braved the sun, the heat, the mud, a sea of emo kids, dodgy food stalls, dodgier loos and all the other delights that characterised this year's My Cokefest just so that I could see Muse. I had heard reports from fri... Read More on Thoughtleader.co.za