At my funeral my rabbi has been given strict instructions to throw a last carton of Camel Filters and a Zippo lighter into the casket with me just in case, heaven forbid, I wake up six feet under only to find myself without a smoke. Knowing my form I won’t be able to find them […]
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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Jake White’s response to the speculation
As the co-writer with Jake on his official blog, I include herewith his response to the speculation appearing in the media. Jake believes the post of director of rugby should be created. Read it all at http://jakewhiterugby.blogspot.com/2008/08/director-of-rugby-needed-for-springboks.html Let’s give Jake our full support by either putting a comment on here or on the official blog. […]
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Sell a submarine, save the Post Office?
As an infrequent but dedicated purchaser of books from Amazon.com, I was surprised to read a number of articles claiming that the company would no longer be shipping goods to South Africa because our Post Office was infested with thieves and nogoodniks. Customers of Amazon who still wanted to acquire their products were, according to […]
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USA applying double standards on South Ossetia and Abkhazia
America, Nato and the European Union might want to rethink their approach to the issue of Georgia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia. As things stand now they are, in condemning Russia for recognising the two breakaway former Georgian territories, practising double standards. Correct me if I’m wrong but weren’t the USA and her mates the same […]
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Olympics: every clown has a silver lining
I just love watching Sky News commentators waffling on about how well their guys did at the Olympics and how you can figure out exactly how much money each medal costs by taking the amount spent on a particular sport and dividing that by the amount of medals won. So I figured that seeing as […]
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Madiba, FW — this one’s from the heart
As South Africans ponder the future of our multiracial democracy I asked my readers to go back to 1993 and tell me what they thought would have happened, had we turned right towards war, instead of left towards a negotiated settlement. The relevance of that question in assessing our current situation and the way forward, […]
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Mazeltov it’s a Berbatov
What a bowl of cock-custard we have to put up with every time Manchester United are involved in a transfer deal. In fact it’s gotten so bad you can’t read a British newspaper unless you’ve swallowed a goodly amount of Valoid, just in case you stumble across their latest misadventure. FFS as if it’s not […]
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If I were Usain Bolt, I would be awful
Jacques Rogge, chairman of the International Olympic Committee, made a total twat out of himself by suggesting that Jamaica’s Usain Bolt, a triple gold-medal winner, should tone down his celebrations out of courtesy to fellow competitors. Apparently this genius finds the post-race antics of the winner of the 100m, 200m and relay sprints, all in […]
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Biden may be in office but I would have gone for Hillary
While most of us have been wondering whether John McCain will be able to remember, let alone find, the White House should he win the presidency, Barrack Obama has been out there making Senator Joe Biden the presumptive Democratic vice-presidential nominee. Biden, a three-term Senator from Delaware, himself a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination […]
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War games: What would have happened in SA?
It’s May 1993. Nelson Mandela, president of the African National Congress, just prior to addressing a joint sitting of the two houses of the UK Parliament, learns that a right-wing military coup has been carried out in South Africa. The sitting president, FW De Klerk, has been overthrown and replaced by a General JJ Malan, […]
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Hi-yo silver a bit of Judas and Pahad
I’ll bet you anything that our Olympic team would have given anything to have Judas on board in Beijing. Thirty pieces of silver? Makes your mouth water. What a sorry excuse for an Olympic Squad this lot turned out to be. Never mind we’ll be hearing the post mortems on this one until we’re all […]
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Key questions the ANC can never get around on the Scorpions
The more argument that is presented to justify closing down the Scorpions the less convincing the proponents become. I’d like to simplify it with a few short questions: www.mg.co.za/article/2008-08-22-key-affidavit-used-to-smear-scorpions Firstly, if for example the CIA, FBI, DIA, MI5, MI6 or any other unit was under investigation for politicking or otherwise, do you think the governments […]