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Unsubscribe | Suggest to a friend | Email the editor The Daily Thought May 30, 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... Child victims' case cries out for Victims Fund by Sheila Camerer on May 30th, 2008 No case illustrates better the pressing need for a fund specifically to compensate and assist victims of crime than that of nine township children, allegedly sexually abused by German immigrant Werner Braun. Braun fled the country via Namibia at t... Amazing Grace Mugabe by Michael Trapido on May 30th, 2008 I really feel sorry for Mugabe. I mean what is the point of telling your wife something if she's only going to blab it to the whole world? Yes I know Bob I've got the same problem with 'the government' (Mrs Traps). You tell them something, swear them... I am a South African and I refuse to be ashamed. by Khaya Dlanga on May 30th, 2008 Of course we cannot feel pride for what we witnessed in Alexandra in the last couple of weeks. Hanging our heads in shame and writing lamentations will not change what has happened. We could express our dissatisfaction at what appeared to be a lack o... Delivered, bound hand and foot by Steven Lamini on May 29th, 2008 In every province of human life, and in that of reporting truthfully principally so, we have a right to demand a living sympathy of mind with mind. It is clearly not only about getting the highest circulation in the media establishment; the press is ... Religious authoritarianism and social control by Bert Olivier on May 29th, 2008 While reading Henry Giroux's book, Against the New Authoritarianism (2005), I recalled Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1985), a riveting narrative of a post-nuclear war regression to a supposedly biblically founded Republic of Gilead in ... "We're like despised dogs" by Mandy de Waal on May 29th, 2008 "We came here for safety. If you don't want us, don't keep us here like animals. Send us home. We would rather die in our country, than live here like despised dogs." Elmy, a Somali woman at the shelter camp in Pretoria North. Elmy is... Is South Africa a "rogue democracy"? by Michael Trapido on May 29th, 2008 Dear President Bush, What with all your known knowns, unknown knowns and unknown unknowns, we're sure you're absolutely overrun about now. We were however wondering if you could kindly email South Africa a copy of our president's recent letter to... Working families, workers and pubic wigs by Sarah Britten on May 29th, 2008 In every political culture, there's a favourite construct, a sort of Pavlovian bell that is designed to trigger the immediate cessation of critical thought. In South Africa, it's "the workers" or "the people". The workers want, the people demand: app... UNASUR: will it work? by Steven Lamini on May 28th, 2008 There have been active developments across the borders of a number of Latin American countries since 2004 to form what was seen as a regional forum for, among other things, the social inclusion of these countries' different nations. Last year, during... Strange silences by Steven Lamini on May 28th, 2008 If there is one certainty in the American Presidential elections, it is that none of the candidates of either party can ever stand watch on the walls of beleaguered cities, peering through the darkness infested by every multinational company imaginab... Read More on Thoughtleader.co.za