Could the circular economy be the solution to youth unemployment?
28 October 2015 – The process of collecting, transporting, and recycling waste could generate hundreds of thousands of sustainable jobs and viable small businesses, thereby tackling one of South Africa’s greatest challenges – joblessness.
Deep and dangerous: Health and safety in our mines - IRR Report
15 December 2017 - The latest @Liberty report from the IRR (Institute of Race Relations) – “Deep and Dangerous: Health and Safety in Our Mines” – seeks to explain the current safety and health rules and explore the ways in which they are being implemented.
Different policies required to fix the future
Instead of merely criticising ANC policies, it is necessary to put forward fundamentally different policies and ideas. So says the Institute of Race Relations.
EFF lacks understanding of economic freedom – IRR
14 October 2014 - True economic freedom stimulates investment and employment. It makes for faster economic growth and increased prosperity for all, including the poorest 10%. The EFF's call to expropriate land and nationalise mines, banks, and other businesses shows that it has no understanding of economic freedom.
Eskom still faces massive 18 000 MW power shortfall
18 March 2015 – “South Africa’s precarious electricity supply is a national crisis which is crippling our economy,” says engineer Andrew Kenny in an analysis published today in @Liberty, the policy bulletin of the IRR.
Expropriation without Compensation: not just about land
12 January 2018 - The Institute of Race Relations has taken note of the widespread confusion around the proposal adopted by the African National Congress at its recent elective conference pledging expropriation without compensation to drive land reform.
Expropriation without Compensation puts investment envoys in impossible position
17 April 2018 - President Cyril Ramaphosa’s welcome initiative to dispatch a team of respected envoys to promote investment in South Africa stands to face constant frustration in light of the government’s plans to institute a policy of expropriation without compensation.
Few benefit from South Africa's empowerment policies
6 April 2016 – A report published by the IRR today notes that very few South Africans benefit from current empowerment polices. Since these policies have failed to benefit the poor and disadvantaged, few people support them either.
Flashes of common sense bring out contradictions in the ANC's policy documents
3 July 2017 – IRR analysts released an assessment of nine new policy documents that were published by the African National Congress (ANC) ahead of its National Policy Conference currently underway.
Free trade: A blessing reviled
25 May 2017 – In a paper released in Johannesburg today, the IRR said that trade liberalisation had helped to lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. "To finally conquer poverty across the globe," further trade liberalisation was an absolutely essential condition.
Gauteng is the best province to live in
29 December 2014 – The key finding is that, on aggregate, Gauteng is the best province in South Africa to live in, followed, in descending order, by the Western Cape, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, the Free State, the North West and the Northern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, and the Eastern Cape.
Give all pupils school vouchers worth R12 000 each!
South Africa should introduce a comprehensive system of educational vouchers to level the educational playing field, says the IRR. The vouchers – which could be spent solely on education – would be tantamount to a universal bursary system.
Give provinces more policymaking authority
16 May 2016 – The IRR has released a comparative social and economic report of South Africa’s nine provinces.
Give the job to real capitalists, not pseudo-capitalists
20 September 2016 - South Africa's major state-owned companies should be removed from the control of "pseudo-capitalists" and sold to real ones. This is one of the key arguments put forward by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) in a paper entitled Privatisation or Bust released in Johannesburg today.
Going off the Rails: The Slide Towards the Lawless South African State
02 November 2016 - The founding ideals of post-apartheid South Africa are under serious threat as the state slides into lawlessness. This is the key finding of a report published by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) in Johannesburg this week.
Gordhan charge shows rise of new right wing – IRR policy paper
12 October 2016 - Against the background of the criminal charge brought against the Minister of Finance, Mr Pravin Gordhan, the IRR has released a policy paper titled The Rise of the New Right: South Africa’s Road to 2024 on the prospects for a forced, quite authoritarian, economic reform process in South Africa.
Gordhan recall may herald reshuffle, policy swings – IRR analysts
27 March 2017 – IRR analysts believe the move to be a political power play by factions of the African National Congress (ANC) aligned with the President, and what is loosely described as the Eastern Bloc of that party.
Government is on the brink of fiscal catastrophe – IRR report
22 February 2017 – IRR COO Gwen Ngwenya said the budget presented by the Minister of Finance yesterday suggested “a government at the brink of fiscal catastrophe and without a plan for either growth or austerity”.
Government lags in employment equity – IRR
18 February 2016 – The South Africa Survey 2016, released by the IRR this month, shows that national government departments and parastatals lag far behind provincial and local government in employment equity.
Government poisoned by a toxic mix of policies
South Africa's system of government is poisoned by a "toxic mix of affirmative action, cadre deployment, and impunity", according to the IRR (Institute of Race Relations).
