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Merit must be paramount if growth is the goal – IRR

Forcing merit to take the backseat in favour of demographic considerations in managing South Africa’s fishing industry raises a barrier to broader growth and ...

Pre-Budget 2025 webinar: how to unlock billions in growth potential – IRR

Ahead of next week’s budget, the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has urged finance minister Enoch Godongwana to consider three simple steps that could unlock ...

SONA must reveal pro-growth pivot or Ramaphosa will have failed – IRR

As President Ramaphosa prepares to deliver his first State of the Nation Address as head of the GNU, the IRR urges him and all governing parties to return to ...

Will SA’s 20,000 new race inspectors have to reinvent the pencil test? - Daily Maverick

A massive new effort at racial inspection is afoot. In a country with far too few jobs, is this where money should be spent? And who will pay the price?

Communist neighbours in crisis: Haiti and Cuba’s divergent paths to failure – Andrew Kenny - Biznews

Less than 80 kilometres separate Haiti from Cuba. In Haiti in 1804, a large group of black men staged the most successful slave uprising in history. In Cuba in ...

New polling vindicates IRR position on merit

New polling released by the Social Research Foundation (SRF) vindicates research conducted by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), which emphasises merit ...

Kamalanomics: Bold tax hikes on corporations and the wealthy – Ivo Vegter - Biznews

Kamala Harris, unsurprisingly, favours tax increases on the rich and on companies, going even further than Joe Biden’s proposals.

MICHAEL MORRIS: Crisis is about entrenched woes, not budget - Business Day

Anticipating Wednesday’s budget 2.0, it seems telling in hindsight how often the word “crisis” appeared in assessments of finance minister Enoch Godongwana’s ...

Lessons from the Catholic Church the ANC must learn - John Endres - Biznews

How has the Catholic Church, the oldest continuously existing institution in the world, survived for so long?

The party or the people? - The Citizen

Towards the end of his State of the Nation Address, President Ramaphosa departed from his written text to reflect on the role he plays in the life of the ...