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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 ...

MICHAEL MORRIS: There’s no getting away from racial bias - Business Day

Sometimes, at a distance, the contemporary obsession with appearances can be amusing.

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 ...

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 ...

2 June 2022 - Every opinion poll commissioned by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) indicates that unemployment is the No 1 problem in SA.

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.

Mistaking the ‘Malema’ risk: A reply to Martin van Staden - Politicsweb

This is really a reflection on the virtue of being less than wholly convincing, or convinced, and thus avoiding the penalty of bringing the argument to a close.

Mixed reactions on signing of Employment Equity Bill - Newzroom Afrika

The signing of the Employment Equity Bill by president Cyril Ramaphosa continues to receive mixed reactions. The Institute of Race Relation has joined ...

Mlondi Mdluli | SA needs a new model of economic empowerment - City Press

There is no doubt that apartheid is one of the main reasons South Africa continues to be the most unequal country in the world.

More cadres and state controls will not avert water shedding

‘Under the Water Services Amendment Bill of 2023 (the Services Bill),’ notes the IRR, ‘the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) plans to appoint hundreds ...