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IRR submission to Coalition Convention: Now is the time for bold reforms

South Africa needs nothing less than bold reforms capable of giving citizens a realistic chance of getting ahead through much faster economic growth, increased ...

IRR to go to court to oppose election postponement

5 August 2021 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has briefed a legal team to go to the Constitutional Court as a friend of the court to oppose the appeal ...

IRR to join legal action on election postponement

16 August 2021 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) will be joining legal action regarding the possible postponement of October’s local government election ...

IRR to MPC: Get ready, SA's future is decentralised

South Africa cannot afford to direct its focus entirely on national government; provinces and municipalities are where much of the country's future will be ...

IRR to publish key report on electoral reform in South Africa

4 November 2022 - On Monday 7 November, the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) will be publishing an analysis of the current state of electoral reform in South ...

IRR to publish latest opinion polling on the state of South Africa

On Tuesday 12 November, the IRR will be hosting an online briefing to publish its latest opinion polling on the state of South Africa. The webinar and ...

IRR to Ramaphosa: 2024 elections at risk if you sign the EAB into law

11 November 2022 - The IRR yesterday wrote to President Ramaphosa warning him not to sign the Electoral Amendment Bill if it is passed by the National Council ...

4 February 2021 - The African National Congress (ANC) is using the ‘emotive issue of land dispossession as cover for doing what the apartheid government did: ...

IRR warns of risk of land nationalisation

5 August 2021 - The Institute of Race Relations warns that while the drive for Expropriation without Compensation remains very much alive, a potent new threat ...

IRR welcomes ConCourt decision to hear case on candidates’ list

10 September 2021 - Last week the Constitutional Court dismissed the EFF’s request to reopen candidate nominations, but – with the ANC having failed to ...