Jobless youth are now routinely described as a "ticking time bomb", but the time bomb will have to explode before it is taken seriously enough to result in the policy changes.
Our own writing in the media
Every year our analysts and policy experts, in promoting new ideas and policies, contribute a wide range of articles to newspapers across South Africa.
In his fortnightly column in Business Day, John Kane-Berman, CEO of the Institute, looks at whether South Africa is headed in the footsteps of Greece.
In a recent interview with the Sunday Times, Bobby Godsell of Business Leadership SA said it was time for South Africans in business, civil society, the churches, and government to be "courageous and forthright and candid in our views about how to secure our future".
What a disappointing performance by Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane in seeking to defend the admissions policy of the University of Cape Town (No better admission policy than race — for now, June 22).
John Kane-Berman, CEO of the Institute, argues that labour legislation is keeping the unemployment rate so high.
In his fortnightly column in Business Day, CEO of the South African Institute of Race Relations, John Kane-Berman, argues, "It is not often that the government puts a price tag on failed policies, but that is what the Department of Human Settlements recently did with nepotism, cadre deployment, affirmative action, "tenderpreneurship" and general corruption in subsidised housing under the reconstruction and development programme (RDP)."
You write in your editorial (A thug state in the making, April 13) that most South Africans don’t see Julius Malema as dangerous but rather as laughable.
MEMBERS of Parliament sitting on its justice committee were recently reported to have been "visibly shocked" at evidence of corruption and incompetence.
John Kane-Berman argues that conventional wisdom has it that the violence flaring up periodically around the country arises from anger over poor "service delivery".
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s 2011 Budget shows why South Africa is rated as the most transparent government in accounting for its expenditure, as the document openly addresses pressing issues facing South Africa. The three biggest areas of spending are education, social protection and health. A notable inclusion is funding for the environment.
In his fortnightly column in Business Day, John Kane-Berman argues that the proposed new labour laws will harm, not help, the unemployment situation in the country.
John Kane-Berman argues that Ebrahim Patel's New Growth Plan is a nonstarter.