Search results

IRR calls on NCOP to reject the Expropriation Bill and fulfil its role as upper house

The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has called on the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), in particular its Select Committee on Transport, Public Service ...

MPs must follow National Treasury in respecting civil society independence

26 October 2022 - MPs serving on Parliament’s Standing Committee on Finance should follow the National Treasury’s lead and abandon key clauses in the General ...

IRR welcomes MPs applying brakes on compulsory NPO registration bill

12 October 2022 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) welcomes the decision of Parliament’s Standing Committee on Finance to allow more time for public ...

Two key draft laws advance the NDR, but threaten SA democracy – IRR

21 September 2022 - Two key pieces of legislation signed off by parliamentary committees yesterday proceed in lockstep in advancing the National Democratic ...

5 July 2022 - Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has determined to terminate Zimbabwean Exemption Permits forthwith. This is the desperate act of a ...

26 November 2021 - The events of the past weeks have demonstrated that a political realignment in South Africa is possible, even probable, and quite ...

Withdrawing extra-12% Job Tax a win with a warning – IRR

1 September 2021 - Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu has withdrawn her green paper proposal for a social security plan that would amount to an ...

8 August 2021 - Last week’s column on “How to fix the country” stated up front that Cyril Ramaphosa would probably do very little to halt South Africa’s ...

9 August 2020 - When the French political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville visited the United States in 1831 one of the things that impressed him most was the ...