Reports earlier this week claim that President Jacob Zuma’s second wife, Nompumelelo Ntuli Zuma, popularly known as MaNtuli, has been accused of having an affair with her bodyguard. In addition that members of Zuma’s family wrote a letter to Ilanga, a Zulu language newspaper, setting out details of the affair including allegations that the bodyguard, […]
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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.
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Vavi the bonfire to Malema’s vanity?
Zwelinzima Vavi, general secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, on Tuesday warned of the possibility of a split in the tripartite alliance if the ANC were to proceed with disciplinary charges. Vavi, who is an ordinary member of the ANC as well, told the SABC that this has the potential of breaking […]
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ANCYL has too much rabble, too few radicals
Though it is easy to understand how the ANCYL might fail to appreciate the impact of their repeated threats to bring nationalisation to South African mining, what is incomprehensible is their continued calls for violence in Cape Town over the toilets issue when the Grabouw and Gugulethu wards clearly demonstrated that their efforts are undermining […]
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Cope must rein in the spoilers
And then the ANC begat Cope which begat Cope-Lite and Cope-Cherry which all got into a Bugatti and flew overseas to spend their parliamentary allowance at Euro Disney before returning home to rejoin the ANC, DA or a partridge in a pear tree. When the Congress of the People party was formed in 2008 by […]
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Zapiro a rebel with one too many causes
In what is going to be considered a highly controversial move the National Press Club (NPC) on Sunday called for a meeting between Jonathan Shapiro, the Mail & Guardian and Muslim leaders to discuss the cartoon that has angered the Muslim community. According to NPC chairperson Yusuf Abramjee: “The media needs to be sensitive to […]
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Bulls and Sowetans teach us nation building
When South Africa became the rainbow nation in 1994, much was expected of the country that had transformed itself from the egregious system of apartheid into one of the most modern democracies in the world. Founded upon a Constitution that is the match of any on the planet in terms of guaranteeing the rights of […]
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Malawi ruling takes gay rights back to the dark ages
Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza, the gay couple who dared to stage an illegal same-sex wedding in Malawi, have been sentenced to 14 years in prison with hard labour. The pair was sentenced by a Malawi court on Thursday pursuant to their arrest on December 28 following a symbolic wedding. They were subsequently denied bail […]
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If Barbie is Mandela then Fritzl must be JFK
In one of the most ridiculous analogies yet, Johan Lemmer, stepfather of convicted child molester Cezanne Visser who is also known as “Advocate Barbie”, has likened her plight in being forced to serve her sentence to that of anti-apartheid icon and former president Nelson Mandela. Lemmer told Beeld newspaper that “just like Mr Mandela, Cezanne […]
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ANCYL not helping Malema’s cause
When the African National Congress released a statement welcoming the national disciplinary committee’s (NDC) decision against ANCYL president Julius Malema, they were at pains to point out that they had noted his plea of guilty and his show of remorse. ANC reaction In their statement, issued by spokesperson Brian Sokutu, the party welcomed the ruling […]
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Malema could give a sneak preview of ANC 2012
While Business Day are suggesting a Malema guilty plea to shorten today’s disciplinary hearing, IOL are speculating on points in limine being taken by the youth league president’s advisers. In the first instance the guilty plea, in return for a suspended sentence, has been making the rounds and appears to be a sensible exit strategy […]
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Right-wing extremists are terrorists, not freedom fighters
Upon the murder of their leader Eugene Terre’Blanche, the AWB confirmed they would be meeting with government on a new Volkstaat where they could be the authors of their own destiny. While there was anger and emotion in the days following the brutal killing, the movement displayed a maturity that somehow seemed to have eluded […]
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Cosatu should know better than Terre’Blanche bail demand
Trade union federation Cosatu is demanding that the two men accused of the murder of AWB leader Eugene Terre’Blanche be given bail. In a statement, issued by the Congress of SA Trade Unions in the North West, the union says that the suspects must be given bail like those racist farmers who killed farm workers […]