
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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Lessons from a misspelled billboard
- By Michael Morris
- . May 22, 2019
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
- By Michael Morris
- . May 15, 2019
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
- By Michael Morris
- . May 8, 2019
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
- By Michael Morris
- . Apr 10, 2019
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
- By Michael Morris
- . Apr 3, 2019
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
- By Michael Morris
- . Mar 27, 2019
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?
- By Michael Morris
- . Mar 20, 2019
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,