Michael Trapido

While the planet is running around screaming “don’t panic!”, the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (the big one on the map, the small one is the Republic of Congo) continues to rapidly deteriorate. Unchecked vested interest groups are once again coming home to roost and it’s going to get real ugly, real soon. […]

Is it any wonder that the Southern African Development Community continuously fails to achieve closure on the issues that affect the region? Zimbabwe is just the latest in their long line of failures to act with anything like the courage, vision and resolve required to bring solutions to problem areas. Indeed if it were left […]

AFP is reporting that the Zimbabwean state media is blaming the opposition for the deadlock in the power sharing deal and urging President Mugabe to simply go ahead and appoint his own cabinet. What a load of cockcustard! This is so far removed from the reality as to demand an explanation lest all those who […]

When the Southern African Development Community gathers on Sunday to try and resolve the deadlock between the Zimbabwean political factions they must focus on the fact that it is the members of the SADC, aid agencies and the masses of Zimbabwe who are paying an enormous price for these factions to continue refusing to reach […]

If regard is had to the fact that African American voters in the USA and white voters in South Africa form roughly the same percentage of the overall population then the result we witnessed in Tuesday’s US presidential election is the equivalent of Helen Zille capturing the South African presidency. Stop and think about that […]

“Let freedom ring. And when this happens, and when we allow freedom to ring — when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children — black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, […]

The Supreme Court of Appeals (SCA) has set down the NPA’s appeal against the decision of Judge Chris Nicholson, in the Pietermaritzburg High Court, which led to the charges against ANC president Jacob Zuma being withdrawn, for hearing on November 28 2008. The parties have to file their heads of argument prior to November 25. […]

Section 88(2) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa confirms that no person may hold office as president for more than two terms. The section is, however, capable of being amended by a two-thirds majority and is not cast in stone. In order to achieve what would surely be one of the longest […]

While Terror Lekota and the dissidents (there’s the name for a rock group right there) kick off their national convention in Sandton, the ANC continues to refer to them unapologetically as dogs and a bunch of poisonous snakes; seemingly upgraded from the dead snake of a few weeks ago. Indeed there can no longer be […]

‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said, ‘To talk of many things: Of shoes — and ships — and sealing wax — Of cabbages — and kings — And why the sea is boiling hot — And whether pigs have wings.’ (The Walrus And The Carpenter by Lewis Carroll) When the dust finally settles over […]