Read the IRR’s submission to parliament on why we oppose amending Section 25 of the Constitution.
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8 August 2018 - By force of numbers we can better prosecute the battle of ideas and turn public opinion, opening the way for sane policies that respect property rights and South Africa’s future as a market economy – and thereby its future as a constitutional democracy.
29 June 2018 – This is the IRR’s response to a new bill, aimed at re-opening the land claims process for five years, which is just as flawed as the similar 2014 Act struck down by the Constitutional Court in July 2016
28 June 2018 - Property rights are not a hindrance to land reform, but part of the solution, IRR project manager Terence Corrigan tells influential German opinion makers in Berlin today.
FreeFACTS - June 2018
22 June 2018 - This report underlines the threat of Expropriation without Compensation – to the economy, to urban homeowners, the majority of whom are black, to the poor streaming to the cities in the hope of a better life, and to emergent farmers whose success hinges on secure title.
Will South Africa become Africa’s Venezuela?
20 June 2018 – Changing the constitution in pursuit of EWC, or achieving the same end without a constitutional amendment … could trigger a chain of events that will reverse many of the economic as well as political gains of South Africa’s democratic transition.
Empowering the State, Impoverishing the People
20 June 2018 – ‘Empowering the State, Impoverishing the People’ is a report the IRR today released in Washington in the United States to advance its campaign to protect and extend the property rights of all South Africans.
Who owns the land? A critique of the state land audit
27 March 2018 - The numbers in the 2017 State Land Audit: Private Land Ownership by Race, Gender and Nationality report released in February this year have been used extensively to motivate for expropriation without compensation of white owned land. In the EFF motion to amend Section 25 of the constitution the Audit is cited as the source for the claim “that black people own less than 2% of rural land, and less than 7% of urban land”.
@Liberty – From land to farming: bringing land reform down to earth
26 May 2016 – South Africa needs to redesign its land reform policy to pay far more attention to the essential ingredients of entrepreneurship and training, says the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) in a paper published in Johannesburg this week.
@Liberty – The Expropriation Bill is back and it's still unconstitutional
4 March 2015 – The Expropriation Bill of 2015 again gives the State the power to take ownership and possession of property of virtually any kind by notice to the owner – and without a prior court order confirming the validity of the expropriation.