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Unsubscribe | Suggest to a friend | Email the editor The Daily Thought August 4, 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 African Future Times: Giving you tomorrow's news today by Reader Blog on August 4th, 2008 Submitted by Angry African They say that America is ahead of the times. So I travelled there to see if I can get an insight into our African future. This is what I can report will happen in Africa over the next few weeks. It makes planning a bit e... I am not patriotic: Forgedaboudit! by Ismail Lagardien on August 4th, 2008 Sentletse Diakanyo ended his post on patriotism with a reference to a football team. This gives me useful way to submit a contribution on the topic. I am not patriotic. This does not mean that I "hate South Africa". Hell no. It simply means t... The folly of arrogance of the new ANC by Sentletse Diakanyo on August 3rd, 2008 The Anglo-Irish philosopher Edmund Burke (1729-1797) said: "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other." In 1966 at the Johns Hopkins University, US Senator James William Fulbright delivered a speech on the "arrogance of pow... Umshinis could kill our democracy by Alex Matthews on August 3rd, 2008 In February, a University of Limpopo student was beaten up and killed by three senior Sasco members for refusing to sing a "struggle" song. In need of a lift back to their campus, the Sasco members boarded a Student Christian Organisation-only mi... Sunday Times continues to advance 'gutter journalism' by Sentletse Diakanyo on August 3rd, 2008 The Sunday Times again continues to advance with remorseless regularity its branch of "gutter journalism". This newspaper has over the years re-established itself as a Sunday tabloid. The story it ran on August 3 2008 about the bribe of R30-milli... Nkululeko: Government murders a 'wild' native? by Khadija Sharife on August 3rd, 2008 On July 15, a hippo was murdered in Verulam; it is alleged that the hippo killed a man. In truth, the crime of this creature was merely to be as it was born, in the wrong place and at the wrong time. Nkululeko had nothing more than wait on his assume... Protection of information from whom? by Michael Trapido on August 3rd, 2008 At his Loftvus Versfeld birthday celebrations on Saturday, Nelson Mandela called upon members of the ANC not to celebrate the life of an individual but rather the organisation itself and its achievements after a prolonged struggle. Madiba went on to ... Puppy buried alive? I'll bury the bastards by Michael Trapido on August 2nd, 2008 The Pietermaritzburg story about a seven-week-old puppy with two spears driven into it and then buried alive made my blood boil. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's animal cruelty. Imagine the mentality of the human filth that did this. Takin... In praise of an ex-dictator by David Smith on August 1st, 2008 I have been listening to Bantu Holomisa speak for the past 21 years. On Thursday night I heard him again at the University of Johannesburg. Attendees were told that the Major General would deliver a lecture on his initiative to include a question abo... We are continuously being screwed by bloody capitalists! by Sentletse Diakanyo on August 1st, 2008 Our society is tied as a whole by an invisible umbilical cord: capitalism. It continuously promises the masses the vastness of a seemingly infinite horizon of affluence, yet the poor are still subjected to vile and ignoble existence, to an undignifie... Read More on Thoughtleader.co.za