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FreeFACTS - September 2023

This edition of FreeFACTS looks at labour relations in South Africa, with a focus on strikes and wages.

Labour: Make Work Pay, Support Those in Need

'#WhatSACanBe: 100 days to get SA back on track' is a series of nine short papers each focusing on a key policy area. Taken together, these papers offer a ...

The IRR's Blueprint for Growth 3: Breaking the BEE Barrier to Growth

For two decades, supporters of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) have insisted that race-based measures are needed to overcome the effects of apartheid – but ...

The IRR's Blueprint for Growth 6: Generating Jobs and Skills for Prosperity and Growth

The IRR’s latest paper in the Blueprint for Growth series can help the GNU achieve its goals of economic growth and job creation. Rapid economic growth is the ...

IRR Submission to the Treasury: On grants

25 November 2024 - In this submission to the National Treasury the IRR has recommends keeping existing social grants, without introducing new ones or expanding ...

@Liberty - A new approach to empowerment in mining

06 Septemeber 2017 - The new charter identifies its ownership, skills development, and community upliftment elements as ‘ring-fenced’ elements with which ...

@Liberty – BEE doesn't work, but EED would

6 April 2016 – Since 2013 the government has already ratcheted up its employment equity, black economic empowerment (BEE), and land reform policies in a host ...

Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance National Assembly, regarding the Public Procurement Bill of 2023 [B18-2023] Johannesburg, 11th September 2023

Sept 11, 2023 – In this submission to the Parliament’s Standing Committee on Finance on the Public Procurement Bill of 2023, the IRR argues that, rather than ...

Issue Alert: Equality of Outcomes and the Pepuda Amendment Bill

9 July 2021 – This report warns that proposed amendments to the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act (Pepuda) of 2000 could ...

Most South African Youth will not find work: What can be done to avoid a mounting disaster

19 May 2022 - This Special Report looks at structural youth unemployment in South Africa. It finds that most people aged 24 – 34 are not in employment, ...