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MICHAEL MORRIS: Cape Town sets benchmark in value-for-money procurements - Business Day
As we contended with yet another bout of unwelcome blackouts last week, a signal City of Cape Town initiative came as a sober reminder of why “wealth-shedding” ...
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MICHAEL MORRIS: Citizens can make good choices without coercion - Business Day
As the time for making winning arguments in the 2024 testing election campaign dwindles, it is inescapably tormenting that in the restless, jostling build-up ...
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MICHAEL MORRIS: Crisis is about entrenched woes, not budget - Business Day
Anticipating Wednesday’s budget 2.0, it seems telling in hindsight how often the word “crisis” appeared in assessments of finance minister Enoch Godongwana’s ...
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MICHAEL MORRIS: Expropriation Act a body blow to SA’s prospects and co-operative politics - Business Day
A part of me would much rather be writing about what on earth Elon Musk could have been thinking when he declared that, in their electoral unanimity, Trump ...
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MICHAEL MORRIS: From Elizabeth I to corrupt SA, stunting new ideas comes at a cost - Business Day
In their expansive account of economic history, Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu and James A Robinson provide a vivid glimpse of the cost of overweening power ...
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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: SA’s future is not preordained - Business Day
One of the most interesting things I read in the last days of 2024 was an appraisal of Jimmy Carter, published only hours after the former US president’s death ...
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MICHAEL MORRIS: Thankfully history churns ceaselessly - Business Day
I well remember how, as the 1980s dragged on, writing about SA and its fundamental unignorables — all those problems that were as obvious as they were ...
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MICHAEL MORRIS: The ANC’s search for meaning is stuck in the past - Business Day
By a confluence of things that could not have been designed for better effect, ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula succeeded spectacularly last week in ...
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MICHAEL MORRIS: The right economic choice will be decisive - Business Day
The other morning my early-rising wife addressed herself to the somnolent bulge that was my gloomy side of the bed, recommending, with lovable if jarring ...
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