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Unsubscribe | Suggest to a friend | Email the editor The Daily Thought July 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... Preaching hatred :"Islam is a puppet religion." by Michael Trapido on July 29th, 2008 South Africans against a backdrop of xenophobia, racist remarks being made freely and without sanction by the chairman of the parliamentary sports portfolio committee and homophobic nonsense from Jon Qwelane, need to intervene immediately and with ve... Is South Africa destined to blow it after all? by David Saks on July 29th, 2008 South Africa's plummeting image internationally must surely be a cause of concern today. This year things have significantly worsened with such new crises as the xenophobia outbreak, power cuts and continuing leadership vacuum in the ruling par... Whatever will be, will be. by Jenny Goodrick on July 29th, 2008 "We don't have all the answers, we really don't," said my friend. It has been an exhausting week. Sorting out the nukes around the world, predicting the outcomes of global politics and then finding something to make for supper. So when my f... Refugees must not hold the government to ransom! by Sentletse Diakanyo on July 28th, 2008 During the oppressive stations of life, it was not uncommon to hear demeaning utterances about the nature of black people in general; utterances that suggested that black people are inherently brutal, criminal and represent the savagery that mankind ... Is the ANC two parties in one? by Michael Trapido on July 28th, 2008 Yesterday in response to my call for amnesty for both the president and the ANC president, upon the basis set out therein, I received a couple of responses from readers suggesting that it might be of benefit to the country if the ANC centre and the A... The art of entrepreneurship in a time of clasped purses by Anthea Buys on July 28th, 2008 On the front page of yesterday's edition of the Business Times Anton Ferreira writes that despite certain obstacles in the urban job market, "big city incomes are surging" because of a profound increase in entrepreneurship. The focus of Ferreira's ar... A good woman in the Congo by David Smith on July 28th, 2008 I was thinking about xenophobia today. In fact, these days I think about it far too often. The death of a friend in Kinshasa prompts today's thoughts. Nathalie Muteba was a young and extremely gifted journalist at Radio Okapi, a national radio ... One teabag, one spoonful of neurotoxins by Khadija Sharife on July 28th, 2008 My father has finally decided not to include carcinogenic neurotoxins in his tea. The decision to cease this morbid habit may have been stimulated by the fact that aspartame was formerly classified as an agent of bio-warfare by the Pentagon in invent... South African criminals have so much to teach the world by Sarah Britten on July 28th, 2008 This weekend, news in Australia was enlivened by revelations of an attempted ATM robbery in Brisbane. In the dead of night on July 26, the Bank of Queensland branch was torn apart by an explosion that damaged nearby stores and threw the ATM into the ... Zimbabwe negotiations are bound to fail by Lazola Ndamase on July 28th, 2008 There has been a lot of jubilation and misguided excitement about the recent Zimbabwean negotiations, what with the European Union praising Mbeki's mediation effort and the brokering of a memorandum of understanding. Surprisingly this song and ... Read More on Thoughtleader.co.za