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Why we will be going to Senekal – IRR
15 October 2020 - Events in Senekal underline the need not just for honest, rational debate about key challenges facing South Africa, but practical solutions ...
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Crime is both down and up – and the state is NOT the primary policeman
Though traumatised by crime – illustrated earlier this week by the release of the latest crime statistics – South African society can take some comfort in the ...
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Going off the Rails: The Slide Towards the Lawless South African State
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Broken Blue Line 2
This is the second report of the Broken Blue Line project – the first having been published by the IRR in 2011. As in 2011 this 2015 report examines the extent ...
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Broken Blue Line 3
30 October 2018 - This is the third report of the Broken Blue Line project – the previous two having been published by the IRR in 2011 and 2015. As with the ...
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Broken Blue Line: the Involvement of the South African Police Force in Serious and Violent Crime in South Africa
South Africans have become accustomed to media reports alleging the involvement of policemen or ‘people dressed in police uniforms’ in serious crimes. The ...
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Capital punishment in South Africa: Was abolition the right decision?
It is now just over 21 years since the Constitutional Court abolished the death penalty. It did so at a time when opinion polls showed that most South Africans ...
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Digging For Development: The mining industry in South Africa and its role in socio-economic development
In December 2012 the Embassy of Sweden commissioned the South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) to investigate the socio-economic circumstances of ...
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Don't add chaos to disorder - Exposing the weakness of Key Civilian Disarmament arguments
22 June 2021 - This report explores some major claims made by gun control advocates which claim to be based on solid data and how these claims are ultimately ...
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Cele’s tirade offers lesson in race relations
8 July 2022 - Not unusually, the viral video of the week involves an allegation of racism in South Africa, this time from Police Minister Bheki Cele, directed ...
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