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Remember that song: “Oh Lord it’s hard to be humble, when you’re perfect in every way, I can’t wait to look in the mirror, because I get better looking each day?” Have another look, maybe if you had your glasses on, put down the crack pipe and wiped away that smugness, you’d be able to […]

Criminal attorneys will confirm that the question that they are most asked by the general public is: “How can you defend criminals?” It’s not that hard to answer because all of you are criminals. Yes, even you. A criminal, according to the Oxford Dictionary, is “A person who has committed a crime”. In other words […]

Submitted by Obert Mathivha As we are still nursing the pain of Africans beating and killing each other in Kenya and Zimbabwe, the same Africans are now attacking each other in the southern part of Africa. This is a result of the state of service delivery in our country, which is below average. We are […]

The blogosphere has been up in arms over the recent xenophobia attacks. It is extremely sad and depressing to see our country in a state like this. We can debate and debate but all that will matter is action. We have to ask ourselves how can we use technology to make a difference? Stii suggested […]

Of all the great things the age of social media has ushered in, let’s not be blinded to the emergence of the age old affliction which has plagued humanity ever since Kane took out Abel…Hate. Hate speech was there ever since people could speak, write, through the days of the printing press, book publication, audio […]

The past two years we saw the rise of the social networks. A new site sprouts up at least once a week. If you read what some of the early adopters are saying, you get the feeling that people are tired of signing up for every new service every time. It is fast becoming hard […]

Ever since Google set the benchmark on office perks, employees around the globe have wished they could get a slice of the wonderful pie being served up in Mountain View, California. I for one have always found much joy in reading about companies that offer their employees perks that go far beyond the standard medical […]

Just as road rage is not primarily about the person at whom the rage is directed, so the current, or recent, spate of attacks against foreigners is not, I believe, primarily about hatred for these unfortunate migrants. Road rage is a classic example of what is known in psychoanalysis as ‘projection’ — in this case […]

I started out writing this regular contribution at the start of 2008, at the tail end of finalising my doctoral dissertation. It was, therefore, a rather difficult period. Following the successful defence, and now being unemployed with time on my hands, I am more readily available to make a more consistent contribution to ThoughtLeader. That […]

It was one of those brilliantly clear days in early summer. I came within sight of the aloes of Jansenville. This dusty town lies about fifty odd kilometres from Graaff Reinet, near Kalkkop. I went there to inspect the crater left by a meteorite quarter of a million years ago. This day, no crater interested […]

How do I love Google? Let me count the ways. I love that they’ve kept their simple homepage while all around them have transformed into overwhelming portals. I love their ingenuity. Their ability to solve problems that we didn’t even know we had is unmatched. I love their search engine with all its patented algorithms, […]