Gwen Ngwenya to take up post in political arena
21 February 2018 – Gwen Ngwenya leaves IRR to take up a post in the political arena, as head of the policy for the DA
Half a million South Africans murdered, children hard-hit – new IRR report
8 June 2017 – Almost 500 000 South Africans have been murdered since 1994. This is one finding from the 2017 South Africa Survey released by the IRR this week.
Housing cutbacks mooted, but unlikely
1 April 2015 – A Fast Facts report released today by the IRR finds that expenditure on housing has grown faster than any other budget item since 1999, and that the Government is unlikely to curtail it.
Housing delivery under the ANC “an extraordinary success”
4 December 2015 – "...the data we reveal shows that in 1996 there were 3 432 002 black-African families residing in formal housing, but by 2014 that number had increased to 9 432 000 or by 5 990 998 or by 174.6%."
Housing Policy: Costly and Ineffective
6 October 2015 – In the past 21 years, the State has provided more than 2.5 million houses and a further 1.2 million serviced sites. "But at the same time," notes the IRR, "the housing backlog has grown from 1.5 million units in 1994 to 2.1 million units today. In addition, the number of informal settlements has expanded from 300 in 1994 to 2 225 now."
Housing vouchers to empower people
7 October 2015 – The solution to rising housing costs and poor delivery lies in what many people have been saying for years: that the State should transfer the housing subsidy directly to them, as they could use it more efficiently.
Imperative to root out arms deal corruption - 5 May 2011.pdf
“President Jacob Zuma has a constitutional obligation to take effective action against corruption. This includes the corruption which appears to have accompanied the 1999 arms deal,” says the South African Institute of Race Relations (the Institute), which has been admitted as an amicus curiae (friend of the court) in a case before the Constitutional Court today.
Inside South Africa’s ‘Secret Police’
21 March 2018 - Few things in South Africa are more visible and yet more secretive than the VIP Protection Services, the subject of the IRR’s latest report, South Africa’s Secret Police: Inside the Multi-Billion Rand, Clandestine VIP Protection Services
Invitation to IRR Media Briefing – EED is for real empowerment, whereas BEE has failed
28 March 2017 – BEE helps only a small ‘elite’. This has once again been confirmed by an IRR field survey which shows that almost 90% of people say they have drawn no benefit from BEE.
IRR backs minister on youth housing policy
30 October 2014 – The IRR supports the view of the Minister of Human Settlements, Lindiwe Sisulu, that free housing should only be directed at the elderly and the indigent and that young people should be required to work to provide their own housing.
IRR calls for extension of ICC submission deadline
1 March 2017 – The IRR has today written to the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services to make the point that the time afforded for submissions on the proposed Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Act Repeal Bill is too short.
IRR calls for extension of ICC submission deadline
1 March 2017 – The IRR has today written to the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services to make the point that the time afforded for submissions on the proposed Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Act Repeal Bill is too short.
IRR launches a new local government index ahead of polls
07 June 2016 – The IRR has launched a new comfort and deprivation index that can be used to track and compare the relative standards of living within local authorities in South Africa.
IRR launches new National Growth Strategy for South Africa
27 May 2016 - The IRR has drafted a new economic recovery plan for South Africa called the National Growth Strategy or NGS. The NGS is an economic recovery plan that has been drafted by the policy team at the IRR to be implemented over the period 2016 to 2019 as the basis of a long term economic recovery targeting GDP growth levels of 7% of GDP by the end of the decade.
IRR Media Comment – Budget analysis 2016
24 February 2016 – Budget analysis 2016 – finance minister undershoots, stagflation the likely outcome
IRR Press Release - ANC faces national defeat in 2019
5 August 2016 - The IRR says that the performance of the African National Congress (ANC) in the recent local elections raises the spectre of that party losing its national majority in the 2019 national and provincial elections.
IRR Press Release: Contradictions reflect ideological splits within the ANC
27 March 2017 – Flashes of common sense bring out contradictions in the ANC's latest policy documents.
Recession imminent if policy reform is delayed
08 June 2016 – The IRR has warned that the South African economy could easily find itself in recession if policy reforms were not urgently implemented.
IRR report into police criminality – ‘The wolf guards the sheep’
28 January 2015 – The IRR, in conjunction with Afriforum, today released results of an investigation into the extent to which police officers in South Africa plan and execute serious and violent crimes such as murder, rape, and armed robbery. The report is part of the Broken Blue Line, a research project undertaken by the IRR since 2011 to track police involvement in criminality.
IRR report warns on growth forecasts, debt and deficit levels
4 April 2016 – A report released by the IRR has warned that Treasury growth forecasts to 2018 may be on the high side, and that there is a considerable degree of risk that deficit and debt targets set out in the recent budget will not be achieved.
