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The Expropriation Bill of 2015, which was released by the minister of public works, Thulas Nxesi, in January this year, is unconstitutional and economically ...

Born frees, people born after 1990, will increasingly become more involved in violent protests, and abandon democratic institutions, due to ongoing political ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In December 2012 the Embassy of Sweden commissioned the South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) to investigate the socio-economic circumstances of ...

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 ...

23 July 2018 - The latest report from the Institute of Race Relations makes the case for thorough-going reform of South Africa’s approach to empowerment, ...

Empowering the State, Impoverishing the People

20 June 2018 – ‘Empowering the State, Impoverishing the People’ is a report the IRR today released in Washington in the United States to advance its campaign ...