When does freedom of speech and expression trump the right to respecting people’s beliefs or religion? Are we finally reaching the point where no boundaries remain that we will not overstep? Can we honestly just keep kicking down the fences guarding our morality and then expect people to put up new ones, only to have […]
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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An hour with Saru president Oregan Hoskins
Oregan Hoskins has been re-elected as the president of the South African Rugby Union, home body of the current world champions, in case you’re an All Black supporter and you weren’t sure. Two-time winners of the premier event, actually, having competed in far fewer tournaments. A good thing too, or who knows, New Zealand may […]
Posted inNews/Politics
Stick to your guns, Mr Tsvangirai, for the sake of Zimbabwe and Africa
If ever a country and a continent needed one man to display superhuman courage and fortitude, then that country is Zimbabwe and that man is Morgan Richard Tsvangirai. Victory in Zimbabwe’s presidential election, undiluted by side-deals and concessions to Mugabe, will signal to other African tyrants that the will of the people, regardless of their […]
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Pregnant man turn your stomach? Have a peep at Thomas
Hawaiian native Thomas Beatie, formerly a woman who underwent gender reassignment surgery but retained his reproductive organs, is now expecting a child. Mazeltov! May you only know simchas. I can only imagine the nachos of raising a daughter, marrying her off to this genius and then finding this story breaking out across the globe. (The […]
Posted inMedia, News/Politics
Zimbabwe, Kenya and Polokwane prove that press freedom is vital to Africa
As Mugabe’s thugs are once again unleashed upon the opposition and journalists in Zimbabwe, the roll of the media in safeguarding the citizens of a country is being highlighted — a roll that is particularly vital to the continent of Africa. The tyrant, who has just poked his head above ground, has decided to employ […]
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ANCYL leadership contest: Shades of Polokwane?
Another page in the voting nasty annals of African politics is being written in the sacred halls of the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein — home of the brave and the land of the free – to pee in your soup. The ANC Youth League (ANCYL), established in April of 1944, is currently […]
Posted inLifestyle, Sport
Scuba diving: Does my bum look fat in this?
Yesterday I learned that all three of the current scuba deep-diving world records are held by two divers from Johannesburg — which made about as much sense to me as the Jamaican Olympic bobsled team. I mean, FFS, where do these geniuses train? “Honey, come out of the rain and get your head out of […]
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Obama, Clinton or McCain face a great depression but who’s talking about poverty?
The Independent newspaper (UK) headlined on Tuesday with “The great depression” in reference to what it claims is 28-million Americans’ reliance on food stamps to survive. This, it goes on to say, arises from the era of the credit crunch, which it suggests is “a sure sign the world’s richest country faces economic crisis”. Ironically, […]
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Zuma to table cryonics proposal to get tougher on crime
In line with his repeated calls for South Africa to get tougher on crime, African National Congress president Jacob Zuma has confirmed that he will be putting forward proposals for the introduction of cryonics at the next party conference. Msholozi believes that this will achieve a balance between those seeking the death penalty and the […]
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Eugene Terre’Blanche, Mike Stofile and the year of being ugly
From the country that brought you the ANC two-faction in-fighting debacle, the war between the Scorpions and organised crime unit and the arms deal, comes a film so moving — and let’s face it, most of us will want to move overseas quickly after seeing it — that critics have deemed it an epiphany. Tweeracistsenababa […]
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Eugene Terre’Blanche, Mike Stofile and the year of being ugly
From the country that brought you the ANC two-faction in-fighting debacle, the war between the Scorpions and organised crime unit and the arms deal, comes a film so moving — and let’s face it, most of us will want to move overseas quickly after seeing it — that critics have deemed it an epiphany. Tweeracistsenababa […]
Posted inNews/Politics
Hillary Clinton: Experience in watching genocide ignored or just lying in wait?
Christopher Hitchens launched a scathing attack on Hillary Clinton for her economy with the truth regarding a trip to Bosnia in 1996: “She’s being punished, not for one episode of ‘mis-speaking’, but a whole record of dishonesty. In Bosnian terms it’s more disgraceful than many remember. In 1992, Bill Clinton ran against George Bush Snr […]