"What you lookin' at? You all a bunch of fuckin' a**holes. You know why? You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be? You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your f*ckin' fingers and say, 'That's the bad guy'. So ... wha...
An interesting email did the rounds last week. It was an open letter/apology from a former South African Breweries (SAB) employee to Proteas batting star Hashim Amla, which was posted by Bobby Skinstad on his personal blog. The story goes that when A...
What is it about the festive season that makes people want to kill themselves and each other? Strange question, I know, but I spent the night of the 25th and early hours of the 26th December with the drunks and depressives at hospital in the casualty...
I reiterate -- I love beer. The golden nectar is truly a gift from the Almighty. There is a quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin that goes "beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy" and I believe that this may not be far from the tru...
Many of Thought Leader's regular bloggers worry whether the people who read these blogs actually do so with any measure of intellectual diligence.
The cause for our concerns is the very low standard of almost half of the comments readers take the ...
By Warren Whitfield
According to the latest United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime stats:
Drug use in South Africa is double the world norm.
South Africans consume more alcohol every year than anyone else in the world.
About 1...
Life, what a joy and teacher of great lessons on how to live, what your limits are and how to behave as a man of stature. And life commonly finds it necessary to revise these lessons when you seem to be losing your way in blissful ignorance and excit...
Submitted by Sean Lloyd
Working in the eco-industry, I constantly stress about little things environment wise. Are my friends recycling? Are they using organic body-care products? Are their products local, and not imported? I wonder if that salad ...
Drinking and driving in South Africa is a scourge. With Christmas parties commencing in earnest to celebrate the end of the year, the incidents of drunk drivers on the roads is likely to increase. Many drunk drivers do get home safely. Unfortunately ...
So I'm watching the news last night and I see that the case involving Pretoria High Court Judge Nkola Motata is still dragging on. What I found even more intriguing is when the newsreader mentions, in passing, that this whole mess emanates from an ac...
