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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 ...

SAHRC’s silence on racial classification a cause for concern – IRR

What is a “black” person or a “white” person? How do you define these racial entities that many of our democracy’s laws are predicated on?

ANC’s shocking stance: Call to cut ties with France threatens South Africa’s economic growth - Biznews

When Sébastien de Place, president of the Foreign Trade Advisors for France in South Africa, warned the government last week of the risk to foreign business ...

BEE costs: Parliament must hold the executive accountable – IRR

Parliament must be held responsible for failing to exercise its oversight powers over the executive’s Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) failures, says the ...

IRR: Will SA’s universities sacrifice excellence, and the futures of students, at the altar of apartheid-era racial quotas?

The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) will be writing to the vice-chancellors and principals of all 26 South African universities this week to ask if they ...

Controversial judgment threatens to worsen SA’s loadshedding crisis – Andrew Kenny - Biznews

One of the most foolish and dangerous court judgments I have ever heard was made on 5 May 2023 in the Gauteng High Court by Judge Norman Davis.

IRR welcomes GNU commitment to non-racism

The Institute of Race Relations is encouraged by recent statements from figures within the Government of National Unity, including President Cyril Ramaphosa, ...

New ‘equity’ law: what was Ramaphosa thinking?

President Cyril Ramaphosa made history yesterday by signing a far more aggressive form of BEE – the Employment Equity Amendment Bill (EEB) – into law. The IRR ...

SA’s new Employment Equity Bill: unconstitutional and counterproductive – Ivo Vegter - Biznews

President Ramaphosa signed the Employment Equity Amendment Bill into law this week. It is probably unconstitutional, and will leave the country worse off, not ...

Is BEE coming to residential complexes?

The Institute of Race Relations notes comments by Minister for Human Settlements Mmamoloko Kubayi that obligatory empowerment demands for residential complexes ...