Michael Trapido

While cabinet posts are being allocated and the constitutional amendments prepared, two additional issues of critical importance come to mind. The end of sanctions allied to whatever investment (is there anything left out there after the Lehman implosion?) can be made available and the rebuilding of the Zanu-PF as a credible party. I do not […]

Just when you thought it was safe to come out of the bunker following the CERN Laboratory experiment, along comes a financial storm so severe that you start thinking that it might have been better if those black holes had swallowed us up after all. I mean FFS what was the point in celebrating the […]

Beeld this morning confirms that the NPA is currently weighing up an appeal against the decision in favour of Jacob Zuma handed down in Pietermaritzburg on Friday. The judgement, which will set the scene for many interesting tripartite alliance meetings this week, rendered the charges against the ANC president invalid. Of course, as the unnamed […]

Paragraph 195 of Judge Chris Nicholson’s judgement deals with the overall conspiracy allegations of Jacob Zuma in somewhat fishy terms. In essence, it’s the old sprat-to-catch-a-mackerel routine in that the conspirators, via the NPA, would use Thint (sprat) as bait to nail Shaik (mackerel) and once he was convicted they could bring down the big […]

Judge Chris Nicholson ruled in favour of Jacob Zuma in the application before the Pietermaritzburg High Court, in that the National Prosecuting Authority’s decision to prosecute the ANC president was held to be invalid. His judgment flowed from a procedural failure by the NPA as opposed to any decision on the merits of the case. […]

It was with no little relief that we are hearing that Zimbabweans have finally reached an agreement on power sharing. While the exact details shall be released on Monday and there are bound to be many who are still unhappy, it offers the people of that country a vehicle with which to begin the journey […]

Only in America! While the entire planet was focused on the CERN laboratory near the French-Swiss border, just in case our little world had its own Big Bang and like Humpty could not be put together again, the USA was making a matzos pudding about pigs and lipstick. Turns out that on Tuesday Barrack Obama, […]

I always thought that the “Big Bang” was the date that they stamped under cartons of food. Every time the government (Mrs Traps) serves us supper all the boxes are marked “best served before the Big Bang”, which considering that the Mark II is only starting in a tunnel beneath the Swiss-French border today, must […]

A couple of months ago I was in Emalahleni (Witbank) to argue a culpable homicide matter in the local regional court. Unfortunately, due to problems with the magistrate we were unable to proceed with the trial on the day. As always, when matters are delayed, we spent a couple of hours milling around trying to […]