Michael Morris
IRR head of media Michael Morris was a newspaper journalist from 1979 to 2017, covering, among other things, the international campaign against apartheid, from London, and, as a political correspondent in Cape Town, South Africa’s transition to democracy. He has written three books, the last being Apartheid, An Illustrated History, and has an MA in Creative Writing from UCT. He writes a fortnightly column in Business Day.
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How can we tell civilisation from barbarism?
“There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.” These words, in German and in Catalan, appear
Our tormenting myth
At first glance, the watchers in the photograph are rather like us; outsiders looking in. Even without being able to see their faces, we can
To see liberty thrive
I suspect the main reason why liberalism is so much stronger and more enduring than the fiercer (and all too often indistinguishable) ideologies to its
Mistaking the ‘Malema’ risk: a reply to Martin van Staden
This is really a reflection on the virtue of being less than wholly convincing, or convinced, and thus avoiding the penalty of bringing the argument
A worrying obstacle on the road to post-ANC recovery
South Africans who have the most to offer are the very ones the country is most likely to lose to emigration, according to new research.
Trekking on
The older I get the more I am persuaded that the best reason for monuments is being reminded just how wrong we so often are
Jonathan Jansen deserves credit for his courage in speaking up
ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba’s grossly misdirected attack on Jonathan Jansen earlier this month (“Foreign nationals: The new F-word that needs proper discourse,” 10 April) over
The deepest delusion
Few recent statements have more clearly illuminated the crippling delusion at the heart of the ANC’s political project than former President Thabo Mbeki’s characterisation of
The most liberating agency
‘We never said a word about the fact that I have no arms.’ Felix Klieser In a world so often dominated by the self-pitying and
Who could do it today?
The furious disagreement over how we should remember F W de Klerk arguably draws more attention to the political dynamics of South Africa today than