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Unsubscribe | Suggest to a friend | Email the editor The Daily Thought June 12, 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 Aussie politician who keeps her enemies in the freezer by Sarah Britten on June 12th, 2008 One of my next projects, once I've finished the third and final volume of the South African Insult series (The Revenge of the South African Insult, which will feature a black cover with glow-in-the-dark writing), is an examination of the Australian i... Who owns your mind? by Mandy de Waal on June 11th, 2008 I go face to face with Wadim Schreiner for the inside scoop on agenda setting and the battle for control of your brain. Schreiner is a specialist media analyst and the MD of Media Tenor South Africa and partner in Media Tenor International (Swit... What if Robert Mugabe was white? by Michael Trapido on June 11th, 2008 I want you to close your eyes and imagine for a moment that Zimbabwe was being ruled by Robert Mugabe, the duly elected white, rather than black, president. Everything else must remain exactly the same as it is right now. The overwhelming majority... No method to this madness by Steven Lamini on June 11th, 2008 I thought there must be something substantive behind the city of Cape Town's flexing its muscles to the court order by government's provincial arm to utilise community halls for the displacement of foreign nationals. The reasoning that the provincial... The world food crisis: intractable and explosive by Steven Lamini on June 11th, 2008 In no other time during humanity's recorded history is the savagery of market relations so paradoxically defined as in this age of plenty. We are able to transform deserts into oases, carve a path through hitherto impenetrable mountain ranges, succes... Why is Australian clothing so expensive? by Sarah Britten on June 11th, 2008 My Nokia, the South African one, bleeps to announce the arrival of another SMS. My heart sinks: another update from FNB, chirpily informing me of how much I've just spent on my Clicks Clubcard. I will have to be employed in Australia for at least ... US sport: A marketer's dream by Catherine Parker on June 11th, 2008 This weekend, I watched a cricket match. I don't mean I joined some fellow South Africans and crammed into one of the few pubs in the city that broadcasts cricket and rugby. No, I mean I watched a live cricket game, which, in the US, is about as ra... Liquid Zimbabwe by Michael Trapido on June 10th, 2008 Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called on England cricketers to boycott Zimbabwe, on Robert Mugabe to resign and on the United Nations to send in peacekeepers for the presidential run-off. South Africa's Nobel Peace Prize laureate is in no mood to allow ... Drinking from the half-glass: full or empty? by Sandile Memela on June 10th, 2008 A critical thinking friend called St. Pee was telling me that the Million Man March (MMM) is a set up to create a buffer between the real culprits behind crime in the country and the rising anger of the ordinary citizens. "Desmond Dube should st... Global food crisis vs population growth by Mandela Rhodes Scholars on June 10th, 2008 Submitted by Lawrence Mashimbye "No food", "expensive food", "unaffordable food". Our future is jeopardised by the current food crisis. Famine seems more of a reality than ever, and if we are not prepared to change our ignorant approach toward pop... Read More on Thoughtleader.co.za