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Unsubscribe | Suggest to a friend | Email the editor The Daily Thought August 13, 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... Towards the digital donga by Arthur Goldstuck on August 13th, 2008 It's comforting to know that South Africa now has a formal, cabinet-approved digital migration policy, and even more so that our digital TV future will be curated by a Digital Dzonga ("digital south") Advisory Council, drawn from the industry, labour... Open borders! by Steven Lamini on August 13th, 2008 Not far from where I live is a woman who, like many others from her class, have the best of all the worlds possible. She owns a house somewhere here in Yorkshire and one in Cape Town, allowing her to live here for six months during the best of weathe... Reason for Scorpions closure is obvious by Michael Trapido on August 12th, 2008 Think of a number, add the CIA then divide that answer by two, then multiply your answer by MI5, take away the number you started with and your answer is Thursday. FFS, I've heard some cock and bull stories about why the Scorpions have to be disb... South Ossetia: Russia is like the USSR on steroids by Michael Trapido on August 12th, 2008 Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili made two major miscalculations when he attacked South Ossetia -- firstly, in respect of the resolve of the EU or Western world to bail him out if he got into trouble; secondly, with regard to Russia's determinat... Taking civic responsibility seriously by Ahmed Motala on August 12th, 2008 During my first visit in August 1989 to Geneva, Switzerland, I was amazed by the seriousness with which the local Swiss obeyed the laws. I was standing on a street corner at around midnight on a warm summer's evening. There was no traffic, but as... Entering fortress South Africa by Don Goodson on August 12th, 2008 I have had several South African friends and acquaintances complain to me about the difficulty of entering the United States since September 11. A friend of a friend was denied a visa just recently on the ludicrous fear that he would emigrate during... The wonderful, horrible world of spiders by Sarah Britten on August 12th, 2008 Comments by readers of my entry on urban wildlife got me thinking more about spiders. Why do they inspire such horror? Why is it that humans generally agree on the notion of two legs good, four legs good, six legs bearable, eight legs bad (and no... There are good-bad movies (and then there are bad-bad movies) by Bridget McNulty on August 12th, 2008 I'm actually a fan of the bad movie category. You know those movies that are so bad they're funny? Purposefully bad, purposefully funny. Bad as in: over-the-top, cheesy, obvious. Take Zoolander, for instance. As far as I'm concerned, the first goo... Decoding the revolutionary rhetoric of the new ANC by Sentletse Diakanyo on August 12th, 2008 The term "revolution" has been in vogue among the new ANC leadership since the Polokwane conference in December 2007. Many of us knit our brows in shock and have often been left astonished and wondering, "What the hell are they talking about? W... Rights, but no freedom -– except for Tony Leon who is free at last, and great at it by Charlene Smith on August 11th, 2008 Tony Leon is different now and yet maybe this is who he always was buried below the stress. Tony Leon on a public platform today is engaging, charming, witty, erudite and dare I say it – cute. This is a far cry from the leader of the opposition ... Read More on Thoughtleader.co.za