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: Licensing bill bureaucratic burden - 22nd April 2013.
The Licensing of Businesses Bill of 2013 (the Bill), recently gazetted by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), will need an army of bureaucrats to implement, says the South African Institute of Race Relations in a submission made to the DTI last week.
Press Release: Economic hubs show highest shack growth rate
The number of households residing in shacks in the Western Cape grew by 82% over a fifteen-year period, the highest growth rate out of all the provinces.
Press Release: Electricity the fastest delivered basic service
Households were connected to the electricity grid faster than they received housing, water, and sanitation services, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) in Johannesburg recently.
Press Release: More than 20 shacks destroyed by fire everyday
An average of 23 shacks a day were destroyed by fire between 2010 and 2013, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) in Johannesburg recently.
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: Long term job-loss trend for South African agriculture - 7th February 2013.
An established long-term trend of declining employment in agriculture is revealed in the new South Africa Survey recently published by the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg.
Press Release: One in four of the unemployed without work for more than five years - 30th January 2013.
A quarter of unemployed people have been looking for work for more than five years, and a further 40% have been out of work for at least a year according to the latest South Africa Survey, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg last week.
Press Release: New mining bill could send SA tumbling further down ‘Fraser’ index - 13 March 2013.
South Africa has recently dropped to 64th out of 96 on the 2012-2013 Fraser Institute’s international policy potential index, which measures the attractiveness to investors of different mining countries. “If the draft Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Bill of 2012 (the Bill) is made law, the country’s score is sure to tumble further,” says the South African Institute of Race Relations. “For the Bill ignores economic reality, while giving the mining minister many more discretionary powers.”
Press Release: Malema out but youth problem remains - 10th November 2011.
The socio-economic circumstances and inequalities that allowed Mr Julius Malema to become such a force in South African politics were still in evidence.
Press Release: Many Zimbabwean voters are centenarians and some are in prams - 6th June 2011.
No fair referendum or election can be held in Zimbabwe on the basis of the current voters’ roll, according to a report published by the South African Institute of Race Relations (the Institute).
Press Release: Meaningless assurances - 8th March 2011.
In an attempt at damage control, President Jacob Zuma has sought to assure coloured people in the Western Cape and Indians in KwaZulu-Natal that the Employment Equity Amendment Bill does not mean what it says, states the South African Institute of Race Relations.
Press Release: Zuma correct on service delivery successes - 11th September 2012.
The South African Institute of Race Relations says that President Zuma is quite correct to identify the success of the Government’s service delivery efforts. Speaking to the SA Local Government Association yesterday President Zuma is reported to have said that, “No country could have produced the delivery we produced in the last 18 years.”
Press Release: Minibus taxi deaths as likely as being knocked off a bicycle - 18th January 2012.
For every road death in which a minibus taxi was involved, there were 21 road deaths that involved motor cars. This made the chances of being killed in a minibus taxi road accident almost as few as those of being run over while riding a bicycle — 2% of all road deaths in a year — according to the latest South Africa Survey, to be published by the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg next week.
Press Release: More and more taxpayers of all kinds - 24 January 2011.
The total number of registered individual taxpayers in South Africa grew from 3.4 million in 2002/03 to 5.9 million in 2009/10, an increase of 73%. This is according to the latest South Africa Survey, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg this week.
Press Release: More start school but fewer finish their education - 26th November 2012.
Attendance at educational institutions by children aged between 5 and 7 has improved significantly since 1996, according to the 2011 census. However, attendance rates for people 19 years and older have shown a marked decline.
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: 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: 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: Murder more rife in rural areas - 19 January 2011.
A person in South Africa has the highest likelihood of being murdered in the Cacadu District municipality of the Eastern Cape, sexually assaulted in the Xhariep District of the Free State, violently robbed personally or at their business premises in the City of Johannesburg, and is most vulnerable to attack if they own a home in the Metsweding District of Gauteng, according to the South African Institute of Race Relations.
