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IRR latest polling: 'Opportunities or Bust' is emerging as the theme of 2024 ballot battle

South Africans are looking for political parties that set out a clear, non-racial, pragmatic agenda capable of delivering opportunities to build a better life.

IRR Launches Campaign to Fight Loadshedding Meritocratically

13 July 2022 - The IRR has launched a new campaign to Fight Loadshedding by stopping BEE at Eskom. Signatures will be gathered to deliver to the Minister of ...

IRR launches Employment Equity Bill petition

11 March 2022 - The IRR has officially launched a petition calling on President Ramaphosa to veto the race-quota Employment Equity Amendment Bill (EEB) on the ...

IRR Legal proposes BELA solution

IRR Legal has written to the Presidency and to Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube to propose a solution to the impasse over clauses four and five of the Basic ...

IRR publishes third ‘Blueprint for Growth’ paper, ‘Breaking the BEE barrier to growth’

The IRR has published the third paper in its Blueprint for Growth publication series, a comprehensive set of policy solutions that charts a viable path to ...

IRR research shows South Africans would accept a good president of any race

Annual surveys conducted for the South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) show clearly that ordinary South Africans do not care about the skin colour of ...

IRR seeks clarity on Dis-Chem’s position on BEE

18 October 2022 - Dis-Chem’s racial employment policy has been the subject of intense national controversy since the leaking of a document last week indicating ...

IRR seeks legal clarity on Eskom’s exemption from full financial reporting

The Institute of Race Relations is taking legal advice on the constitutionality of the decision by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana to exempt Eskom from its ...

IRR to hand over 23 000-strong petition against race-based law to President Ramaphosa

1 June 2022 - Just over 23 000 South Africans have registered their opposition to the race-based Employment Equity Amendment Bill (EEB) in a petition which the ...

IRR to investigate racial tensions in North KZN

6 October 2021 - On 28 September Qiniso Dlamini (17) was fatally shot during a scuffle with farmer Garth Simpson (68) near Glencoe, in Northern KwaZulu-Natal. ...