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MICHAEL MORRIS: SA could do worse than follow Boks’ blueprint - Business Day
Going all the way back to the early 1990s, it has often been assumed that some supernatural agency was always indispensable to otherwise unthinkable home-grown ...
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MICHAEL MORRIS: Schools are a nonracialism scapegoat for failure to create better life for all - Business Day
Just more than 30 years ago, historian Colin Bundy asked a pointed question that would likely have puzzled many South Africans at the time, and is likely still ...
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MICHAEL MORRIS: South Africans united in their desire for better
On the face of it, it’s a failing country whose citizens, rich and poor — the poor more than the rich — would dearly want their children to find new lives ...
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MICHAEL MORRIS: Spare us the ‘transformation’ ANC has inflicted on us - Business Day
A colleague teasingly suggested last week that I couldn’t possibly grasp the essentials of Johannesburg politics as I lived in a city that had had the same ...
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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: There’s no getting away from racial bias - Business Day
Sometimes, at a distance, the contemporary obsession with appearances can be amusing.
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MICHAEL MORRIS: Transformation Fund will fall short of helping black-owned businesses
I don’t actually know of anyone in my personal circle — apart from some dutiful colleagues who had to — who bothered to listen to last week’s state of the ...
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MICHAEL MORRIS: US ruling rekindles conversation about race - Business Day
I often think of Neville Alexander’s warning almost two decades ago — I touched on it in this column a few years back — about what he called the “disastrous ...
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Minimum wage in an era of joblessness - Financial Mail
2 June 2022 - Every opinion poll commissioned by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) indicates that unemployment is the No 1 problem in SA.
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Minister Steenhuisen must clarify agricultural empowerment – IRR
In November 2023, the Democratic Alliance “strongly condemned” the then-Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development’s “unlawful” AgriBEE plan.
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