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Pro-Growth or Pro-Poverty: Findings of IRR Polling 2025 | Report 2: Policy Preferences of Registered Voters

Recent polling by the South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR), conducted in March/April 2025, reveals a clear national majority, across demographic ...

The IRR’s Blueprint for Growth: In service of the public: Reforming South Africa's public administration

This paper lays out a bold roadmap to restore competence, cut cadre deployment, and professionalise the state.

A population boom - but only in some provinces | FreeFACTS February 2025

In this edition the demographics of South Africa’s provinces are shown and it is clear that the various provinces are diverging in areas such as population ...

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 ...

Pro-Growth or Pro-Poverty: Findings of IRR Polling 2025 | Report 1: The Political State of Play as of April 2025

Recent polling by the South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR), conducted in March/April 2025, reveals shifting voter sentiment amid debates over a ...

The IRR’s Blueprint for Growth: 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”, ...

Control of inflation one of SA's successes | FreeFACTS December 2024

This edition of FreeFACTS looks at South Africa’s inflation over the last few decades and argues that it is one of the country’s post-apartheid successes to ...

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.

SA must guard against provincial decoupling | FreeFACTS - October 2024

This edition of FreeFACTS looks at the differences in economic growth rates between provinces and warns against provincial decoupling.

The IRR's Blueprint for Growth: 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 ...