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BEE on 2024 Chopping Block: IRR requests Minister Nxesi to justify BEE amidst growing evidence of failure
The IRR yesterday wrote to Minister of Employment and Labour Thulas Nxesi highlighting the detrimental impact of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) policies on ...
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Competence, not colour, the key to progress for all - Post
Andile Mngxitama made headlines recently when he raised the alarm that South Africa might soon - shock, horror! - have a white president again if a coalition ...
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Mixed reactions on signing of Employment Equity Bill - Newzroom Afrika
The signing of the Employment Equity Bill by president Cyril Ramaphosa continues to receive mixed reactions. The Institute of Race Relation has joined ...
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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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SA must get onto a 7% growth track, and that demands boldness and innovative thinking - Daily Maverick
The nation’s GDP growth has barely crawled at an average of 1.2% annually since 2008. Concurrently, GDP per capita has regressed by about R3,000 over this ...
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Employment Equity Amendment Act – destined for disaster - Biznews
The President recently signed the Employment Equity Amendment Act (EEAA) into law, ostensibly to improve ‘transformation’ in the private sector.
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MICHAEL MORRIS: South Africans united in their desire for better
On the face of it, it’s a failing country whose citizens, rich and poor — the poor more than the rich — would dearly want their children to find new lives ...
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Basic income grant: weighing up the pros and cons - Biznews
30 July 2021 - There is a widespread belief that a basic income grant of some variety can rapidly and significantly reduce poverty in South Africa. That is ...
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Better to know what is needed than wishing troubles away - Businesslive
26 June 2022 - The same risk that attended the decline of the once seemingly invulnerable National Party from the end of the 1980s once more looms ever larger ...
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Beyond black and white: why ‘aggressive’ pigment politics needs taming - Timeslive
15 November 2022 - Should race law be relaxed in SA? Eskom board member and former Altron CEO Mteto Nyati says yes, at least for Eskom.
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