"If Mr Vavi can make the ANC look so bad over an issue such as tolling, just think what he could do with the fact that 50% of young people do not work or have not completed their schooling."
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The Institute's research manager, Lucy Holborn, says that feelings of persecution by some Afrikaners in South Africa are not supported by the facts.
Press Release: Only 15% of public schools have laboratories - 7th March 2012.
The proportion of schools with laboratories and stocked laboratories declined greatly between 2006 and 2011, according to the South Africa Survey 2010/2011, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations.
Instead of thumb-suck targets and flawed assumptions, we need a land policy that helps established small-scale black farmers to expand.
Press Release: More prisoners or just longer sentences? 5th March 2012.
The proportion of South African prisoners serving sentences longer than ten years increased by more than 2 400% between 1995 and 2011, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations.
Press Release: Independent schools on the rise, public schools dropping - 29th February 2012.
Despite an increase in the number of independent schools the number of all schools in South Africa dropped between 2000 and 2010, according to the latest South Africa Survey, recently published by the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg.
Queen Elizabeth’s reign — during which she has outlasted 12 British prime ministers and 12 US presidents — has been a huge success.
Jobs and growth are coming back into focus and this opens the way for three policy reforms that will be necessary if the government is to meet its growth and employment targets
Press Release: Half of HIV-positive people are women of child-bearing age - 10th February 2012
Of those infected with HIV in South Africa, one in two is a woman of child-bearing age. This is according to the latest South Africa Survey, recently published by the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg.
Press Release: Most pupils choose English instead of their mother tongue - 7th February 2012.
Over 60% of pupils in South African schools choose English for learning and teaching, despite the fact that only 7% of pupils speak English as their home language, according to the latest South Africa Survey, recently published by the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg.
Press Release: South African investment in Africa increasing four times faster than overall foreign investment - 7th February 2012.
South African direct investment in Africa has increased at four times the rate of overall South African foreign direct investment since 1994, according to the latest South Africa Survey, recently published by the South African Institute of Race Relations.
In his fortnightly column in Business Day, John Kane-Berman argues that the ANC'S quest is to "remove checks and balances step by step so that it can eventually wield untrammelled power."
Press Release: South Africa's democracy is slipping - 6th February 2012.
South Africa’s performance in key areas of democracy is slipping, according to the latest South Africa Survey, recently published by the South African Institute of Race Relations last month.
Press Release: South Africa's road death to murder ratio a global anomaly - 6th February 2012.
South Africa is the only country in the world whose murder rate exceeds its road accident fatality rate, according to the South Africa Survey, released by the South African Institute of Race Relations last month.
Press Release: Four out of five households do not qualify for mortgages - 2nd February 2012.
Some 83% of the nearly 14 million households in the country do not earn enough to qualify for bank housing loans, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations last week.
Press Release: Less than a third of children attend Early Childhood Development centres - 2nd February 2012.
More than two thirds of all children between the ages of 0 and 4 do not attend Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published last week by the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg.
Press Release: Africans die of TB, whites die of heart disease - 1st February 2012
Tuberculosis is the number one killer of Africans in South Africa, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg last week.
Press Release: South Africa remains a net food exporter - 1st February 2012
South Africa is a net a food exporter, selling abroad 30% more agricultural goods than it imported in 2010, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published last week by the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg.
Press Release: Living standards on the up - 31st January 2012.
The proportion of adults with the lowest living standards has decreased by 77% over the last ten years according to the latest South Africa Survey, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations last week.
Press Release: Mortality keeps rising even as births decline - 31st January 2012.
The number of births for every death in 2011 was less than half of what it was in 1985, according to the South African Institute of Race Relations in its latest South Africa Survey, published last week in Johannesburg.
Press Release: Coalition-run councils increase - 30th January 2012.
Local councils run by coalitions have almost doubled in number in the last two years, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published last week by the South African Institute of Race Relations.
Press Release: More than five railway deaths for every mining death - 30th January 2012.
Railway accidents accounted for more than five times as many deaths as mining accidents over a two-year period, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg last week.
Press Release: Qualified audits on the up for national government - 26th January 2012.
National departments bucked the trend and experienced an alarming increase in the proportion that received qualified audits, while municipal and provincial departments showed a decrease, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published this week by the South African Institute of Race Relations.
Press Release: Financial compensation money could have doubled land restitution hectares - 25th January 2012.
The number of hectares transferred through the land restitution programme could have been doubled if some beneficiaries had not received financial compensation instead, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg this week.
Press Release: South Africa's literacy levels lower than other emerging markets - 25th January 2012.
Despite spending more money on education, South Africa’s adult literacy level remains lower than those of various other emerging markets, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg this week.
Press Release: South Africa's attractiveness for mining plummets - 24th January 2012.
South Africa’s appeal for mining investment has declined dramatically since 2006, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg this week.
Press Release: South Africa way off its employment target - 23rd January 2012.
The rate of job creation will need to increase by nearly ten times if it is to meet the Government’s job creation targets, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations this week.
Press Release: Population would be 4.4 million more without HIV/AIDS - 23rd January 2012.
But for HIV/AIDS, the population of South Africa would be over 4.4 million more than it is today. So says the South African Institute of Race Relations in its latest South Africa Survey, published this week in Johannesburg.
Press Release: Armed security the popular choice as private security ceases to be preserve of rich provinces - 19th January 2012.
The number of private security armed response businesses shot up by 264% while total active registered security businesses grew by 61% over a five-year period. This information appears in the latest South Africa Survey, to be published by the South African Institute of Race Relations next week.
Press Release: Only one in two grade ten pupils reach matric and only one in three pass - 19th January 2012.
Two out of every three grade 10 pupils never go on to pass matric, according to the latest South Africa Survey, to be published by the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg next week.