Michael Morris

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

Travelling to Bloemfontein this week, we stopped to fill up with petrol in Beaufort West, the half-way halt longed-for by the children for whom even

We keep being told South Africa is a ticking time bomb of pent-up fury, but somnolence might be our greater challenge. Not that we are

A common objection to the argument for merit – in the job market, business, the public service, the selection of sports teams, entrance to university

Long into the afternoon, hours after the final whistle blew in Yokohama on Saturday, there were still intermittent bursts of delirious hooting on the freeway

Some of the most vacuous comments about liberalism are also the most demeaning – to black South Africans. The surest sign of flagging faith in

When will we cease to be Africans, coloureds, Indians and whites and merely be South Africans? These words are not mine – which, all these

South Africans have a sound grasp of what matters, and what must be done – but our politicians just won’t listen. The real South African