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SAIRR Today: ‘New thinking’ needs to challenge policy and racial holy-cows - 1st July 2010
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has said that South Africa needs ‘new thinking’ on jobs and growth. This comes after StatsSA released data last week which ...
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SAIRR Today: ANC sowing seeds for future revolt - 11th June 2010
The latest SAIRR Today is guest authored by Patrick Laurence. He assesses the ANC government's performance, and warns that continued corruption and slow ...
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SAIRR Today: Chasing the Rainbow: South Africa’s Move from Mandela to Zuma - 4th June 2010
Earlier this week the Institute’s head of special research, Dr Anthea Jeffery, launched her latest book, Chasing the Rainbow: South Africa’s Move from Mandela ...
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SAIRR Today: Denialism all over again - 19th July 2010
It is odd that just two weeks after the country was taken over by Ghana-mania, reports of xenophobic attacks against immigrants from other African countries ...
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SAIRR Today: Does the ANC have a special relationship with the police? - 25th June 2010
The allegation that elements in the Youth League of the African National Congress used the police to remove rival delegates from a party conference in Makhado ...
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SAIRR Today: Good news in South African schooling - 21st May 2010
Recently the provincial education department in the Eastern Cape stated that it would be auditing former ‘Model C’ schools there because these schools had ‘too ...
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SAIRR Today: How down-under came out on top - 9th July 2010
The Department of Minerals and Energy has missed a rare opportunity to reposition South Africa’s mining industry and attract new investment into that industry. ...
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SAIRR Today: Income track record shows roadmap for the future - 30th July 2010
The Institute’s South Africa Survey for 2009/10 is in the final stages of editing and will be published over coming weeks. In the run-up to its publication, ...
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SAIRR Today: Is hosting the World Cup worth it? - 18th June 2010
South Africa is in the midst of hosting one of the biggest sporting events in the world, and it is set to cost the country money that could have been spent on ...
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SAIRR Today: National service is no panacea - 7th May 2010
The Minster of Defence, Ms Lindiwe Sisulu, has proposed a campaign of national service to deal with the problem posed by high numbers of badly educated and ...
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