Michael Morris

Policymakers in South Africa should be made to frame a 125-word passage from near the end of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s televised address on Friday evening

I have found myself thinking about Alex this week, though I haven’t seen him for years. In the early 2000s, he was a familiar feature

The next three weeks will likely prove to be something of a litmus test of the legitimacy of state authority in South Africa. For obvious

‘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