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.
Articles By This Author
More than just making a ‘lawaai’
Behind every stand the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) takes is a body of considered research, and a good alternative to bad policy. I had
A depressing failure
A nearly two-decade old speech warning South Africa of its looming economic disaster makes for depressing reading – but more depressing are the consequences of
Zille and the IRR: a shared resolve
South Africans’ opinions, ambitions and hopes cannot be defined by the accidental marker of skin colour – and cannot be matched in policy if they
John Harris’s bomb
Remembering a testing moral challenge that remains vivid this half century later. The blast of a dynamite-and-petrol bomb on the main concourse of the Johannesburg
A waiting country
After 25 years in power, and the costs of its flawed policy mounting, the African National Congress (ANC) is unmistakably at the centre of South
Lessons from Lebanon
However good people may be, the societies they constitute cannot prevail against bad ideas unless they muster the will to reject them. The wriest aesthetic
The story of an animal farm
South African novelist Olive Schreiner’s century-old insight into the fundamental unity of South Africans’ interests continues to be fiercely resisted by adherents of the ideology
When it’s time to act
Policies and ideas that divide South Africans by race drive a wedge into our common interest and weaken our chances of success as a society.
The good society
Uniting the middle ground of moderate citizens is the key to a free, open and prospering South Africa. A hitherto unknown – though certainly not
Sustaining discord at the cost of progress
Scrutinising ‘privilege’ shows where South Africa really needs to get to work. Much as it often threatens detractors on the Left and Right, it is