One of the main accusations levelled against ANC president Jacob Zuma is that he has a tendency to tell people what they want to hear, flip–flopping his way through to whatever is expedient at the time of asking. In my book, his agreeing to meet former Sunday Times columnist David Bullard at his home and […]
Michael Trapido
Mike Trapido is a criminal attorney and publicist having also worked as an editor and journalist.
He was born in Johannesburg and attended HA Jack and Highlands North High Schools.
He married Robyn in 1984 (Mrs Traps, aka "the government") and has three sons (who all look suspiciously like her ex-boss).
He was a counsellor on the JCCI for a year around 1992.
His passions include Derby County, Blue Bulls, Orlando Pirates, Proteas and Springboks.
He takes Valium in order to cope with Bafana Bafana's results.
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Russia-Georgia on the brink? It’s all Fritzl and Saunders
While tensions between Russia and Georgia, formerly part of the Soviet Union, continue to heighten, the world’s media is focused on an Austrian cellar and Mark Saunders the gunman who laid siege to Chelsea, England. Call me a prat (well a bigger prat than usual) but isn’t the reason why people want to read about […]
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McCain’s repeal of the “Alternative Minimum Tax” shades of Gordon Brown’s 10p debacle?
Gordon Brown is set to scrap many of his proposed tax increases pursuant to threats of a backbench rebellion arising from the disaster that was Labour’s showing at the local and London elections. Not for voters Britain’s foreign policy or climate change, this time it was all about credit crunch, food and petrol prices and […]
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Tsvangirai would be as mad as Bob to stand in these circumstances
South African President Thabo Mbeki, having failed to query how Zanu-PF knew the result of the presidential election a month before the ZEC, and ignored all reports of murder, torture and intimidation which started immediately thereafter — no doubt in anticipation of the run-off Mugabe had decided on — has now advised religious leaders that […]
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Zimbabwe: Observers out! Bob’ll fix it…
As Zimbabwe fluctuates between glimmers of hope brought about by international and South African pressure on Robert Mugabe, and despair brought about by the SADC and certain other South Africans preaching quiet diplomacy, one man remains steadfast to his principles — Archbishop Desmond Tutu. This giant of the southern hemisphere has been unwavering in his […]
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Barack Obama and the race for the White House
Over the past few months I’ve twice been asked to appear as a pundit on the BBC World Service’s “Have your say” programme dealing with Barack Obama’s bid to become the Democratic Party’s nomination for the White House. In both cases the question of race and its effect on his candidacy was the pivotal point […]
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Zimbabwean dystopia : Why, South Africa? Why?
As reports start filtering through on the United Nations Security Council meeting which dealt with the election impasse in Zimbabwe, the Times of London confirms: “South Africa led efforts to block the dispatch of a UN envoy to Zimbabwe yesterday, as the UN Security Council met on the election stand-off for the first time.” The […]
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You can tell me what you like: Rosemarie Fritzl knew
Like everyone else I’m reading everything and anything on the Austrian father, Josef Fritzl, who kept his daughter captive for 24 years and fathered her seven children. Unbelievable – beats anything I’ve seen as a criminal attorney. Yet one thing keeps haunting me – how could Rosemarie Fritzl not have known what was going on? […]
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Yes Mr President but what about “humanitarian racism”?
You’ve been reading the blog for a while now so by this time you know I am vehemently anti–racist — getting bombed by the left and the right for standing up for one group or another at different times. If I tell the whites to accept Skielik as racist I get pounded. If I tell […]
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Zimbabwe presidency results: I smell a rat
Something tells me that confirmation by the Zimbabwean Electoral Commission (ZEC) that the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) will hang onto its parliamentary majority, is just a ruse to lend credibility to the latest of Mugabe’s insane schemes — that the “Old Man” has won the presidential election. Wild and woolly? Let’s look at a […]
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Would a Labour Party unite South Africans?
South African trade unions, as well as those from other African states, received recognition, locally and accross the globe, for refusing to allow a Chinese ship carrying arms to offload its deadly cargo destined for the Zimbabwean conflict. It was an example of how an African Renaissance could produce solutions for African countries if people […]
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West Texas polygamist sect ranch – Whatever happened to great pick-up lines?
It’s funny how people see things so differently. To me my girlfriend is the most beautiful, caring, kind-hearted and special woman in the world – but to my wife she’s… Mind you I’m sure the police weren’t laughing when they removed hundreds of children from a ranch in Texas recently. According to the Houston Chronicle […]