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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Making ourselves ‘kliye’
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
SA commentary: a crisis of credibility
Read anything about the supposed primacy of race in South African policy-making today and you will be urged to accept the truth of it on
We, the invisibles
If anyone is holding their breath in expectation of swift action against senior African National Congress (ANC) politicians tainted by corruption, they should probably sooner
SA’s 1980s moment: when leaders must be made to follow
Twice this past week, in publications that could never be accused of being opponents of the African National Congress (ANC), direct comparisons were made between