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IRR challenges IEC report on free and fair elections

23 July 2021 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has written to the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) to challenge the findings of its report on ...

IRR in Constitutional Court today to fight for the right to vote

20 August 2021 - Today, the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) will be appearing in the Constitutional Court to fight for the right of South Africans to vote.

IRR launches #PledgeToVote campaign to get South Africans back to the polls

South Africa’s most recent election, the 2021 Local Government Election, signalled a warning about the condition of our democracy in the continuing decline of ...

IRR launches petition to #SaveTheVote

26 July 2021 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) calls on South Africans to support the petition launched today to oppose the postponement of the 2021 ...

15 August 2021 - Postponing October’s local government elections can simply not be allowed to happen, as it would signify that our Constitution has been ...

16 September 2021 - The news that the ANC has opted to recommend minimal changes to the way we elect our representatives at provincial and national level is ...

MICHAEL MORRIS: Bringing about a new ‘new SA’ requires planning and a steely resolve - BusinessLIVE

As the ANC swirls ever faster into the vortex of oblivion that is, remarkably enough, entirely of its own making, the remainder of SA  — which is actually the ...

20 August 2021 - A once-in-a-generation event, the Covid-19 pandemic shook the world in 2020. The world is still reeling from it. Beyond the enormous health ...

10 June 2022 - A great deal has been said and written in recent years about the world’s democratic recession. Many democracies suffered from the weakening or ...

Steamrolling through changes to SA’s electoral system an insult to democracy

2 September 2022 - South Africans have been given a dangerously limited opportunity to comment on the Electoral Amendment Bill, legislation that stands to ...