

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.
- Total Post (110)
- Comments (20)
Articles By This Author

A costly incuriosity
- By Michael Morris
- . Dec 13, 2020
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

Liberalism and religion: a reply to Ernst Roets
- By Michael Morris
- . Dec 1, 2020
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

The (good) Book of Doubt
- By Michael Morris
- . Nov 29, 2020
‘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,

Making ourselves ‘kliye’
- By Michael Morris
- . Nov 15, 2020
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

Land of the free – making sense of the USA
- By Michael Morris
- . Nov 7, 2020
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

Mmusi Maimane and the illusion of race
- By Michael Morris
- . Oct 25, 2020
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

Going nowhere
- By Michael Morris
- . Oct 18, 2020
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

We see you, too
- By Michael Morris
- . Oct 4, 2020
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

Lessons from an immovable monument
- By Michael Morris
- . Sep 27, 2020
President Cyril Ramaphosa chose Heritage Day on Thursday to recommend that ‘(monuments) glorifying our divisive past should be repositioned and relocated’ because ‘(building) a truly

Paralysis by corruption – the ANC’s dilemma
- By Michael Morris
- . Sep 20, 2020
Here’s a question for you. Who said the following? ‘The ANC is pained immensely by stories of corruption. We are highly conscious of the damage