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IRR launches #PledgeToVote campaign to get South Africans back to the polls

South Africa’s most recent election, the 2021 Local Government Election, signalled a warning about the condition of our democracy in the continuing decline of ...

Alex Weiss – The IRR’s #PledgeToVote campaign to encourage people to exercise their power through the vote - ChaiFM

Alex Weiss, #PledgeToVote Campaign Manager at the Institute of Race Relations, urges South Africans to use the powerful tool of the vote to influence change.

3 August 2022 - Eight years ago former President Jacob Zuma said the ANC will rule “forever and ever”. That is looking increasingly unlikely.

24 October 2021 - When the ANC promises that “we will do better”, the question that leaps to mind is, better at what?

Remember Covid-19 when voting – IRR

29 October 2021 - It behoves all voters to remember the risks – personal and political – associated with Covid-19. Reasons for social distancing, masking, and ...

22 August 2022 - In about 600 days, South Africans will be voting in the 2024 elections. For the first time since the middle of the twentieth century, just who ...

Dlamini-Zuma and IEC sabotage Constitutional Court – IRR

4 August 2021 - Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s proclamation yesterday of 27 October as the date for the next municipal elections – despite no section of the ...

IRR to Ramaphosa: 2024 elections at risk if you sign the EAB into law

11 November 2022 - The IRR yesterday wrote to President Ramaphosa warning him not to sign the Electoral Amendment Bill if it is passed by the National Council ...