Press Release: A fifth of the country's households headed by over 60s - 2nd August 2012.
Almost 21% of all households in South Africa are headed by older persons (those over 60 years of age). The Eastern Cape has the highest proportion of such households, according to the South African Institute of Race Relations.
Press Release: Fivefold expansion in ART access - 1 February 2011.
Nearly one in ten people in the world who receive Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) live in South Africa. Access to ART in the country has increased more than fivefold in the past four years, according to the South African Institute of Race Relations.
Press Release: South Africa on a positive development trajectory shows South African Development Index (SADI) - 7th December 2011.
The South African Development Index (SADI) has recorded its fourth consecutive increase for 2011.
Press Release: Western Cape municipalities providing far more free basic services than other provinces - 24 January 2011.
The proportion of households receiving free basic services from Western Cape municipalities was significantly higher than the average provided to households nationally in 2009. Some 82%, 69%, and 52% of Western Cape households received free basic water, sanitation, and solid waste management services respectively. The corresponding national figures were 58%, 33%, and 23%.
Press Release: GDP per capita growth rates lag - 24 January 2011.
The annual average growth rate of South Africa's per capita gross domestic product (GDP) was less than one percent between 1970 and 2008. This is according to the latest South Africa Survey, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations.
Press Release: Handful of universities most prolific - 18 January 2011.
The University of South Africa (Unisa) is the most productive university in the country, accounting for 12.8% of all degrees conferred by a total of 23 public universities and universities of technology, says the South African Institute of Race Relations.
Press Release - New HIV infections halve from almost 2 000 to fewer than 1 000 a day
Approximately 1 000 people get infected with HIV daily in South Africa. High as this may seem, the figure has decreased by more than 50% since 1999.
Press Release: 1 in 2 pregnant women in Gert Sibande district HIV-positive, but only 6% in Namakwa
Some 46.1% of women attending public antenatal clinics in the Gert Sibande district municipality (Mpumalanga) are HIV-positive.
Press Release: South Africa’s TB incidence rate one of the highest in the world
South Africa has one of the worst tuberculosis (TB) incidence rates in the world, with 993 people out of 100 000 living with the disease.
Press Release: Justice a death too far in municipalities with the highest murder rates - 24th January 2013.
Three local municipalities have murder rates close to 200 per 100 000 people, six times the national murder rate of 31 per 100 000 people. The municipalities are Richmond (KwaZulu-Natal) with a rate of 192, Sunday’s River Valley (Eastern Cape) at 178, and Victor Khanye (Mpumalanga) at 177.
Press Release: African home ownership figures higher than those of other races - 24 January 2011.
Far more Africans live in fully paid-up homes than is the case with other race groups, says the South African Institute of Race Relations.
Press Release: IRR chief economist on the release of the third quarter's GDP growth rate - 26th November 2013.
IRR chief economist Mr Ian Cruickshanks says that the mediocre Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate of just 0.7% in the third quarter of 2013 is a result of operating inefficiencies in the South African economy.
PRESS RELEASE: IRR economist urges caution on SA economic growth numbers - 21st November 2013.
IRR chief economist, Ian Cruickshanks, has said that the Governor of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), Ms Gill Marcus, may still prove to be overly optimistic in her GDP growth forecast for 2013. This is despite the forecast having been revised down from over 3% a year ago to 1.9% in the SARB’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) statement today.
Press Release: Increase in African graduates shows higher education has transformed - 18 January 2011.
The number of Africans being awarded degrees by South African universities has increased by more than 300%, according to data from the latest South Africa Survey, to be released by the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg next week.
Press Release: Independent schooling growing apace in South Africa - 17 January 2011.
The number of pupils attending independent schools in South Africa increased by 50% between 2000 and 2009. At the same time the number of pupils attending public schools increased only 1.6%, according to the latest South Africa Survey, to be published by the South African Institute of Race Relations next week in Johannesburg.
Press release: Economic Freedom Index
South Africa is ranked 75 out of 178 countries in the 2014 Index of Economic Freedom, published by the Heritage Foundation this week.
Media Release: Institute backs COSATU on civil society initiative - 21st November 2010
The CEO of the South African Institute of Race Relations, John Kane-Berman, has spoken out in defence of efforts by the Congress of South African Trade Unions to promote the role of civil society organizations in the country. COSATU came in for considerable criticism from both the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) after inviting a group of civil society organizations to a meeting in Boksburg in October. Kane-Berman has described the criticism directed at COSATU as “Stalinism straight and simple”.
Press Release: Jimmy Manyi is likely to have the last laugh - 2 March 2011.
Minister in the Presidency Trevor Manuel has rightly repudiated government spokesman Jimmy Manyi for his statement that coloured people are ‘over-concentrated’ in the Western Cape. So too has the African National Congress (ANC). But the Government of which Manuel is part is still planning to enact a bill that could cause coloured people to move out of the Western Cape if they want work, says the South African Institute of Race Relations.
Press Release: Jobs created by the Expanded Public Works Programme last fewer than 50 days each - 31 January 2011.
The average job created by Phase 2 of the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) lasts only 46 days, the South African Institute of Race Relations said in Johannesburg today.
Press Release: Impressive shift in living standards trends - 28th August 2012.
The proportion of South African adults with the lowest living standards fell from 11% in 2001 to 1% in 2011. In the same period, the proportion of people with the highest living standards increased from 5% to 6%, according to the South African Institute of Race Relations.
