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Thought Leader is an editorial group blog of quality commentary and analysis, edited by the M&G Online
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Power saving made fun and clever
Since we all have to think about saving electricity from now on – if not in the hope that it will avoid future load shedding than perhaps to keep our personal the electricity bill down – I thought it might be a good idea to find out what quirky inventions are out there that could [...] ....
Less worry, more wake up
Submitted by Anthea Garman. Across 16 single lectures, one workshop devoted to education and a series of two about the law, it was extremely interesting this year that many of the Winter School speakers chose this moment to publicly express their worry about the state of nation. To give you a sense of some of their opinions: [...] ....
What does it mean to be a revolutionary in the new South Africa?
This week’s Talkback question on the Mail & Guardian Online: What does it mean to be a revolutionary in the new South Africa? ....
Denver: “Lift ev’ry voice and sing” versus “Die Stem”
At the closing ceremony of a rugby Test played against Wales recently, Springbok captain John Smit admonished a fan in the crowd who was waving the old South African flag. The skipper correctly pointed out to this gentleman that the Bokke knew who they were playing for and made his displeasure known. Nation building at its [...] ....
The new scramble for Africa
In well-to-do circles in the West, it has become de rigueur to criticise China for its role in Africa. The Economist, the bible of the business class, has labelled the Chinese “new colonialists.” Concerned liberals in Hollywood accuse China of facilitating genocide in Darfur. More recently, the American and British governments have expressed disappointment that [...] ....
What did you do in the Struggle, Daddy?
Following the transition to non-racial democracy in 1994, it emerged that no-one had ever supported apartheid. Actually, some had but they had emigrated or were dead. This must have come as a relief to everyone, particularly to black people. It also emerged that many more people had fought against apartheid than had been apparent at the [...] ....
Ecocide: When does the earth have rights?
The standing of nature has no recourse in the modern world where all ‘rights’ have been relegated to the ambit of human beings and human interaction, and which have, by default, reduced nature to the state of reified commodities, worthy of the ‘civilising’ instrument but not worthy in itself. Isaac Asimov once said that man ‘never [...] ....
