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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Wanting too little, getting less
Politics in South Africa seemed set for a welcome spell of uncertainty in 2008 when ANC dissidents broke away to form a new opposition movement.
The hurdle of uncertainty – a reprise
Last Sunday, I cautioned against the temptation to underestimate the uncertainty in millions of voters’ minds about choosing a different future for want of sufficient
The hurdle of uncertainty
Instinctively, I’ve always thought it mistaken to think that voters are foolish even when it seems obvious that their political choices do them harm instead
Freedom vs fanaticism
Over a coffee and a pre-editorial conference cigarette, I was doing a crossword in the smoking room on the fourth floor of Newspaper House in
Time to focus on what we are ‘for’
There is no doubt that the battle for a better South Africa is intensifying, and that resistance to deficient policy and failing governance – and
Crisis? Let’s hope so
‘The South African economy is experiencing an economic crisis manifested in the collapse of investment and economic growth, as well as the further deterioration of
The grammar of freedom and possibility
It’s a little over an hour-and-a-half long, but if you can find the time for it, I assure you the rewards of watching Stephen Fry’s
Beating bigotry
‘(There) is … in the world at large an increasing inclination to stretch unduly the powers of society over the individual, both by the force
Guns, principles, and SA’s uncivilised condition
The challenge confronting people – and, to be honest, I am one of them – who are unsettled by the notion that the right to
Overblown, ironic and wrong – a reply to the Brookes grandchildren
At the very start of South Africa’s lockdown just over 480 days ago, I described a discomforting insight that has a direct bearing on the