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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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
Making a better case for change
Four or five times in the past fortnight, in very different conversations, I have heard middle-class parents, students and young graduates talk of a future
Why we need to talk about classical liberalism
If you are unfamiliar with the online platform, New Frame, a good place to start in acquainting yourself with it might be its editorial on
SA soldiers on, but resilience is not success
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s ‘Dear South African’ letter to the people this week had something important to say about why the country doesn’t fold – but
Don’t kid yourself: taking the knee is just too easy
At a time when distant events are brought to us with such immediacy that we feel they are happening to us and that we must
The naked truth: when silence really is violence
Much attention was lavished this week by, among others, the African National Congress (ANC), the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and the South African Human Rights
‘The people’: just what apartheid’s ideologues intended
One of the neatest political ripostes of the dying days of apartheid was the graffito that appeared in central Cape Town just hours after police
Monumental questions: history, and what we’re doing about it
When President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a virtual National Assembly exchange this week that ‘our people’ had been waiting ‘forever and a day’ for what
When the rage subsides
When the global rage over the death in the United States of George Floyd subsides, as it will when life goes back to ‘normal’, it