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FreeFACTS - May 2018

22 May 2018 - Parents, not politicians, must run South Africa’s schools

freeFACTS - May 2020

The Covid-19 epidemic has forced many South Africans to change the way they work and learn. But access to tools which make it possibly to work or learn ...

FreeFACTS - May 2023

The early 21st century has been characterised by a revolution in how easy it is to access data and information, thanks to the rise of the internet and devices ...

FreeFACTS - November 2020

3 December 2020 - This edition of FreeFACTS looks at how South Africans receive information, with a focus on radio and television penetration. In the wake of ...

FreeFACTS - September 2019

This edition of Free Facts looks at South African education and the trends (some positive and others negative) that have emerged in post-apartheid South Africa.

Freeing Education - The future of the Class of 2020: How to build a bright education future

22 January 2020 – This report offers practical and easily implementable policy solutions to the failures in the South African education system.

15 June 2022 – In this submission to the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education on the Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill, the Institute of Race Relations ...

More to education advances than matric pass rate | FreeFACTS January 2025

This edition of FreeFACTS looks at the matric pass rate and while noting that it has shown significant improvement over the past few years, if one digs deeper ...

New data to be published by the South African Institute of Race Relations shows that the transformation of higher education in South Africa over the past 20 ...

Overcoming the odds: Why school vouchers would benefit poor South Africans

In this report, IRR Researcher Caiden Lang calls for a radical change in how basic education functions and makes the case for a school voucher system as a ...