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Unsubscribe | Suggest to a friend | Email the editor The Daily Thought July 16, 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... G8 fallout: 3bn people want a go on the roller-coaster by Reader Blog on July 16th, 2008 Submitted by Patrick Carmody "Globalisation is making low-impact people into high-impact people faster, in greater numbers, and with greater impacts than at any other time in the history of the world." -- Thomas L Friedman, The World Is Flat Im... Keeping the hope alive by Anton Herbst on July 16th, 2008 Everyone would like to be remembered for something, regardless of whether it's as a great parent or friend; or as someone that had some positive effect on the world during his or her time on it. So it stands to reason that if you come to the end ... Is Cosatu advancing acts of criminality? by Sentletse Diakanyo on July 16th, 2008 Cosatu is planning another protest, a core domain of this useless trade union movement; a protest apparently against escalating food, electricity and oil costs. By some miracle this idiotic protest is intended to alleviate the plight of the poor who ... A pilot sports post: First, full disclosure by Ismail Lagardien on July 15th, 2008 Warning: This post might offend. I have been thinking about submitting the occasional contribution to Sports Leader, but always feared that I might make very many people very woes. Seriously, I have very strange politics when it comes to sport. It... The most powerful weapon against the occupation? by Jonathan Berger on July 15th, 2008 Last week I cried – in public – for the first time in a long time. Years of working in the field of HIV/Aids and access to healthcare have made me tough, perhaps even cold. But as Robi, Ali and Rami recounted their stories of loss, the tears flow... Work-permit protectionism: Who is it really protecting? by Reader Blog on July 15th, 2008 Submitted by Charlotte Malgas South Africa's short-sighted and protectionist approach towards work permits will hit its youth by the end of the year with the demise of the United Kingdom working holiday-maker scheme. Although the UK is offeri... Blacker than thou by Christi van der Westhuizen on July 15th, 2008 Déjà vu -- again. And of a particularly nasty variety too. After refusing to apologise for inciting violence by saying he'd "kill" for ANC president Jacob Zuma, ANCYL president Julius Malema promised not to use the word "kill" in public a... Coffee and croissants, cornflakes and tik by Tony Jackman on July 15th, 2008 I experienced something very unsettling yesterday. Footsteps on the pavement behind me, a voice saying my name. I turned, recognised a face in that way in which you think, "I know you, but who are you?' He reminded me, and I was instantly whis... Barack Obama - America's black hope by Sentletse Diakanyo on July 14th, 2008 The winds of change are sweeping in their full might across America. From west to east, from south to north; from the curvaceous peaks of California to the heightening Allegheny Mountain ranges of Pennsylvania; from desert dunes of Texas to lakes and... Is Professor Malegapuru Makgoba smoking his dirty socks? by Sentletse Diakanyo on July 14th, 2008 When a man the rest of us expect to possess an above average intellect, such as the learned Professor Makgoba, goes on to concur with the rubbish uttered by Julius Malema and Zwelinzima Vavi about killing for Reverend Kangaman, then we have a very bi... Read More on Thoughtleader.co.za