Michael Morris

‘Everyone please be careful.’ These words, expressed only 11 weeks ago by a man who is now dead, have been freighted in the short time

Justice Minister Ronald Lamola may yet rue the confidence with which he recently laid claim to Radical Economic Transformation (RET) as the core programme of

It’s very likely that everyone is heartily sick and tired, now, of the debate about crimes against humanity – but that’s all the more reason

History is often mistakenly thought to be only about the past. But the arguments of the past week over apartheid’s being declared a crime against

Nelson Mandela has, fittingly, been recalled to public consciousness this week in the various statements and events marking the 30th anniversary of his release in

Every other day you can expect to find a commentator, an activist or a politician confidently asserting that what South Africa needs most and hasn’t

A few days short of 30 years ago, South Africa turned back from the brink. I remember it well. In the cool dawn of Friday

Rashly, admittedly, I once suggested to a bemused colleague that if she wanted to live in a leafy suburb she could begin by planting trees.

Just over two years ago, I began an article with a fragment from a 1973 Philip Larkin poem, a sketch from another time, as I