Michael Morris

In the satellite image, Tyefu police station looks as remote and undistinguished as an abandoned farmstead, a modest block and a few outbuildings beside a

I don’t suppose many readers could imagine anything written about linguistics being at once amusing and intelligibly insightful, but a brief passage from some of

I once spent the better part of a day keeping a beady eye on the comings and goings at Mark Thatcher’s home in Constantia, such

Ernst Roets, AfriForum’s Head of Policy and Action, took to Twitter late last week to draw his followers’ attention to a vigorous debate on the

‘E rile mo tshimologong Modimo wa tlhola legodimo le lefatshe.’ These are the opening words of a book given to me and my wife, Sharon,

The powerful have an awful record when it comes to getting the rest of us to follow rules about how to express ourselves. Which is

On a visit to Boston some 15 years ago, I asked a taxi driver where he was from, surmising that the hint of foreignness in

It’s perhaps a measure of the cruelty of fate that, having lost the leadership of Democratic Alliance (DA), even when he has interesting and important

There’s always a risk of making too much of small details, of freighting them with larger meanings they perhaps can’t possibly carry. But the moment

Diehard ideologues of the Left would almost certainly not have been overjoyed by the show of support outside the Bloemfontein magistrate’s court on Friday for