Michael Morris

‘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

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

I can’t recall ever seeing the term ‘hyper-local parties’ before this week, and perhaps that’s because local politics in South Africa has never been quite

The sentiments and the solidarity may be genuine enough, but if that’s as far as it goes, it’s not nearly enough. I wrote these words

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.

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

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

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

There is no doubt that the battle for a better South Africa is intensifying, and that resistance to deficient policy and failing governance – and

‘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