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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 ask leading companies what apartheid-style race audits cost consumers

The IRR will this week be writing to prominent South African corporations on the issue of race- and sex-based employment equity "targets" to investigate the ...

IRR to DA, FF+, ACDP: Opposing VAT hike important, but scrapping tax-funded BEE premiums vital

The IRR will this week be writing to the leaders of the Democratic Alliance (DA), Freedom Front Plus (FF+), and the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP), ...

IRR to engage EFF, MK on alternatives to increasing VAT and BEE

The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) will this week reach out across the ideological divide to engage the leaders of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and ...

IRR to equity consultants: Will you recommend firing employees who refuse racial classification?

The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) is today writing to ten employment equity consulting firms across South Africa to ask for clarity on a core issue of ...

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. ...

IRR to President Ramaphosa: Stop playing games, stop the Blatant Elite Enrichment that is BEE

21 January 2021 - South Africans must conclude from President Ramaphosa’s remarks this week on BEE that the ANC government has learnt nothing from the ...

IRR warns of the economic costs of weaponising Competition Commission

The ANC government appears intent on weaponising the Competition Commission in a sustained campaign that is hostile to entrepreneurship, enterprise, and the ...

IRR welcomes engagement with SAHRC on race classification

The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) looks forward to future engagements with the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) on the critical subject of ...