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A stealth tax, not a health tax
The cash-strapped South African government needs to bring in more revenue but is reluctant overtly to raise the VAT rate, which would unleash a political ...
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A strategic intelligence estimate of the current socio-political and economic environment: South Africa
A strategic report by the Centre for Risk Analysis at the IRR on how the leadership race in the African National Congress (ANC) is likely to conclude and what ...
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A Trim Down Approach for South Africa: Getting SMME's, the economy, and the country into a state of recovery
16 April 2020 – This report recommends that government immediately adopts a ‘trim down’ approach as a way both to manage the risks of Covid-19 and to avoid ...
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The IRR's Better Expropriation Bill – 22 April 2015
The Expropriation Bill of 2015, which was released by the minister of public works, Thulas Nxesi, in January this year, is unconstitutional and economically ...
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Born free but still in chains: South Africa’s first post-apartheid generation
Born frees, people born after 1990, will increasingly become more involved in violent protests, and abandon democratic institutions, due to ongoing political ...
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Digging For Development: The mining industry in South Africa and its role in socio-economic development
In December 2012 the Embassy of Sweden commissioned the South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) to investigate the socio-economic circumstances of ...
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Economic Empowerment for the Disadvantaged
23 July 2018 - The latest report from the Institute of Race Relations makes the case for thorough-going reform of South Africa’s approach to empowerment, ...
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Empowering the State, Impoverishing the People
20 June 2018 – ‘Empowering the State, Impoverishing the People’ is a report the IRR today released in Washington in the United States to advance its campaign ...
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Low economic growth has real consequences | FreeFACTS - November 2024
This edition of FreeFACTS looks at South Africa’s low growth rates and argues that it has real human consequences.
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FreeFACTS - March 2023
This edition of FreeFACTS shows historical trends for economic growth in South Africa. It argues that current levels of economic growth are far too low to make ...
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