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The IRR's Blueprint for Growth 7: Open(ing) for Business: South Africa's Investment Malaise and How to Escape it

The seventh paper in the IRR's "Blueprint for Growth" series explores South Africa’s failure to become a destination of choice for investment over the past ...

The IRR's Blueprint for Growth 8: Solutions to SA's crime crisis to boost growth

The eighth paper in the IRR's "Blueprint for Growth" series provides information on the state of crime and justice in South Africa. It shows how high levels of ...

The IRR's Blueprint for Growth 1: Arming SA's Pro-Growth Forces

Many South Africans remain somewhat hopeful following the formation of the Government of National Unity (GNU), with the expectation that this renewed optimism ...

The IRR’s Blueprint for Growth 2: Slash waste, cut taxes

South Africa’s pro-poverty forces have over many years eroded the opportunities of South Africans to freely participate in a value-add economy where wealth is ...

The IRR’s Blueprint for Growth 2: Cut VAT & BEE

This paper proposes that the government should unlock billions in growth potential by being transparent about the real costs of so-called BEE “premiums”, ...

The IRR’s Blueprint for Growth 1: Arming SA's Pro-Growth Forces

Most South Africans are not happy with the way the country is going. Unemployment, inequality, and poverty have been on the rise for over a decade. ...

The Ten Year Lockdown, with worse still to come

4 June 2020 – This report shows that the easing of South Africa’s stringent Covid-19 lockdown occurs against the background of an unacknowledged policy ...

27 January 2020 – Read the IRR’s full submission to Parliament on the amendment of the Constitution to allow Expropriation Without Compensation.

South Africa is a water-scarce nation, among the 30 driest countries on earth. Its diversified economy is the result of more than a century of sophisticated ...

Why mining still matters

18 March 2019 – This report warns that without urgent policy interventions to revitalise the mining industry, the country’s entire economy will wither.