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MICHAEL MORRIS: Decisions on practical solutions needed, not promises - Business Day
It is surely a measure of the magical realism that animates politics more often than we might feel comfortable with that Cyril Ramaphosa’s parliamentary ...
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MICHAEL MORRIS: Fatalism about ANC reign is the pothole shredding progress - BusinessLIVE
At my teenage son’s creditable instigation I spent some sweaty, grubby hours with him over the holidays fixing potholes in the street outside my wife’s old ...
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MICHAEL MORRIS: Fikile Mbalula’s simplistic reasoning discounts true scale of black oppression - Business Day
Fellow columnist Tony Leon’s readers will have applauded inwardly last week at his choice description of ANC contributions to polluting the common ...
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MICHAEL MORRIS: GNU dynamics prove decisive over education bill - Business Day
In a society justifiably obsessed with granting power to the people, it is remarkable how often scant attention is paid to what the people actually want. You ...
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MICHAEL MORRIS: GNU partners that disown core agreement will pay a high price - Business Day
Whatever the outlook for the nascent government of national unity (GNU), what is perhaps not so obvious (or, for that matter, wholly predictable in its ...
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MICHAEL MORRIS: GNU should improve the lot of all kindred spirits - Business Day
We only travel, I once read, to return home.
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MICHAEL MORRIS: Let’s not allow petty squabbles to eclipse SA’s potential - Business Day
I read a news story last week about Hong Kong officials singling out schools for singing the Chinese national anthem “too softly”, and immediately knew how ...
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MICHAEL MORRIS: Maybe government, not capital, is the problem - Business Day
After ANC political education head David Makhura implored “capital” to “come to the party” last week (in order, he seemed to suggest, to ensure that the ...
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MICHAEL MORRIS: NHI is a long way off — if that makes you feel any better - Business Day
The average person will doubtless find it as hard as I have to imagine a doctor telling a patient with obvious signs of a life-threatening condition that there ...
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MICHAEL MORRIS: Ramaphosa doesn’t realise citizens don’t like being taken for fools - Business Day
One of the easily overlooked features of living in a not especially revolutionary-minded country is that nothing revolutionary ever really happens.
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