The Economist skryf onlangs dat die ANC se buitelandse beleid dui op mense wat “geen benul het nie”.
The Economist skryf onlangs dat die ANC se buitelandse beleid dui op mense wat “geen benul het nie”.
South Africa’s bilateral investment treaty (BIT) with China gives Chinese investors all the standard protections that BITs commonly contain. Chinese investors thus have a right to fair and equitable treatment, the full market value of expropriated investments, and international arbitration to settle any disputes. They can also easily take back to China both the capital they have invested in South Africa and the profits or returns that this has generated.
LARGELY unnoticed, the Department of Trade and Industry is quietly processing legislation that will, in effect, expropriate copyrights on the death of their owner.
In the Sunday Times on 6 September 2015, Deputy Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Obed Bapela stated that the ANC’s Sub-committee on International Affairs, has drafted a policy to outlaw dual citizenship and thus the possession of more than one passport.
Pressure on consumers may drive SA into recession
8 September 2015 – A report released by the IRR has warned that South African consumers are under growing economic pressure and that this may further dampen the country’s economic outlook.
Young whites must use every resource they have to help build South Africa into a world-beating nation. They must invest themselves in launching new businesses, building the economy, creating employment, contributing to innovation, paying tax, building new skills, and increasing exports. They must take every opportunity to create an opportunity for someone else – especially if they come from a different background.
THE war of ideas must be fought like a real war, says the African National Congress (ANC) in one of the "discussion documents" for its national general council meeting next month.
Fixing education system, creating jobs will foster reconciliation.
Comments by Frans Cronjé to the Trans-Atlantic Dialogue Programme of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Brussels, September 3 2015.
The ruling African National Congress (ANC) seems intent on alienating the West and adopting a rigid pro-Russia and pro-China stance. However, the Western countries it is busy targeting have long been South Africa’s most important investors, whereas investment from China and Russia has thus far been very limited.
Biting the hands that feed us
3 September 2015 – The ruling African National Congress (ANC) seems intent on alienating the West and adopting a rigid pro-Russia and pro-China stance, says the IRR (Institute of Race Relations).
Wie is die ware vyande van transformasie?
The South African visa spat has been well documented as has the squabble between Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom and Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba. The figures show that tourist numbers have fallen from key regions, while many jobs are said to be on the line. Not something the government needs to deal with as unemployment already sits at 1 in 4. The President has called for a review of the whole debacle but the damage may have already been done.
ALTHOUGH the African National Congress (ANC) does not share President Jacob Zuma’s complacency about the economy, it shows little sign of the rethinking needed to reverse the country’s downward slide. With a tweak here and there, its remedy is more of what has caused many of our problems in the first place: policies aimed at radical economic transformation during the second phase of the national democratic revolution.
ANC’s attack on the USA will harm South Africa’s foreign policy
24 August 2015 – The IRR has described as ‘unfortunate and damaging’ an attack on the United States of America (USA) contained in a policy discussion document released by the African National Congress ahead of its forthcoming National General Council meeting.
The African National Congress (ANC) seems determined to cling to race-based affirmative action and black economic empowerment (BEE) policies, and is steadily ratcheting up their requirements. But these interventions help only a relatively small black elite, rather than the great majority of poor South Africans.
Anlaysis of South Africa's economic slump rightly identifies falling commodity prices as a key external driver of this country's weak GDP numbers.
Pres. Jacob Zuma het onlangs, onder politieke druk en om aandag aan die polisiemoorde te gee, voorgestel dat Suid-Afrika “ontwapen” word.
The road less travelled – swift action needed to prevent SA’s slide towards ‘rocky road’ economy
14 August 2015 – Dr Frans Cronje, Scenario Planner and CEO of SA Institute of Race Relations (IRR), recently spoke at the second annual Sanlam Investments and Glacier by Sanlam i3 Summit in Johannesburg. He spoke of the high and low road scenarios for South Africa and what South Africa urgently needs to address to change our economic outlook. Please find the press release published by Sanlam Investments here.
GROWTH in demand for all sorts of household and even luxury goods and services testifies to the rise of SA’s black middle class.
Net foreign direct investment (FDI) into South Africa was negative in 2014, with outward flows exceeding inward ones by some R13bn. Moreover, as Business Day reports, in the first quarter of 2015. “inward FDI recorded a negative R22bn… as foreign direct investors in South Africa pulled money out”.
Sara Gon questions the wisdom of the Gauteng MEC's "paperless classroom" programme.
The Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) has called for a boycott of Black Like Me products for “pushing back the gains made by the workers in attempting to secure the bargaining rights in the workplaces”.
Black middle class has expanded quickly but may now slow – new IRR report
3 August 2015 – This report provides a detailed analysis of the size, scope, growth and future prospects of South Africa’s middle class. A briefing on the middle class will become available in August 2015.
Has the Treasury been captured by the black business lobby? Has it bowed before the powerful wind of racial nationalism sweeping through the ruling party and its communist and trade union allies?
The real challenge is to open up real opportunities for all disadvantaged black South Africans, says Anthea Jeffery.
Violent protests have increased substantially in SA
24 July 2015 – There has been a 96% increase in social protest action since 2010...The SAPS is facing a barrage of violent protest action resulting from the broken social fabric of our society.
Frans Cronje says that website is getting it badly wrong in its assessment of socio-economic data.
IRR Policy Fellow Sara Gon critiques the widespread view that President Jacob Zuma is right to believe the court is biased against Africa.
Under draft regulations published last week, the National Treasury is proposing that government tenders up to R10m will in future be evaluated only 50% on price, while the preferential weighting for black economic empowerment (BEE) will also count 50%. This increased BEE weighting will encourage still more inflated prices from BEE “tenderpreneurs” – and yet more firmly subordinate the interests of the poor to the interests of a small elite.
