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
Lessons from a misspelled billboard
Enterprise and self-sufficiency are the wellspring of economic recovery, if only policy makers would see it. Bold, if misshapen, lettering on a crudely fashioned billboard
There’s a big difference between hope and reform
South Africa’s poor especially will find it very hard to make sense of money-market optimism – until it is real enough to trust. ‘Ordinary’ South
IRR’s 90-year record of tenacity in the face of stubborn ideology
Ours is a story of tenacity – and one that matches continuing ideological stubbornness that needlessly impedes the nearly century-old liberal vision of a free,
The misplaced comfort of overlooking history’s contradictions
It’s hard to fault the rationale impelling South Africa’s continuing name-changing mania that a good society is one that expunges imagery that uncritically honours the
Robust speech must be protected for everyone, period
Human rights won’t stand a chance in South Africa if the institution that is meant to defend them muddles defending free speech with validating racial
It’s high time we ditched race, again
We haven’t put racial lunacy behind us; it remains the dominant idea of our politics, the fundamental categories invented by the Population Registration Act having
Cyril probably wouldn’t invest in Eskom, so why should we?
You have to wonder whether President Cyril Ramaphosa would invest a single cent in a business that grew its staff by 16 000 in ten years,