IRR warns against planned pension grab
5 June 2020 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) notes with concern media reports that elements in the tripartite alliance are considering using ‘prescribed assets’ to help fund South Africa’s economic growth.
Risk to SA in the ANC continuing its 10-Year Lockdown – IRR
4 June 2020 - A continuation of South Africa’s unacknowledged policy lockdown of the past decade – with increased state control and yet more radical policy-making – will only deepen the post-pandemic economic crisis and scupper the country’s hopes of growth and rising prosperity.
Court victory shows government is unworthy of the power it has grabbed from citizens – IRR
3 June 2020 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) welcomes the judgment delivered by the Gauteng Division of the High Court declaring the current lockdown regulations unconstitutional.
Sound money, sound government, sound policy are the ingredients of economic stability – IRR
2 June 2020 - In a recent out-of-calendar review, credit ratings agency Moody’s affirmed Botswana’s “A2” rating for long-term bonds. The agency changed Botswana’s outlook from stable to negative, likely as a result of the economic turmoil arising from the Covid-19 pandemic.
IRR media briefing: The 10-Year Lockdown
2 June 2020 - Dr Anthea Jeffery, Head of Policy Research for the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), will present an online media briefing on Thursday on her latest report, The 10-Year Lockdown.
Pension grabs for state expenditure just another form of state capture – IRR
1 June 2020 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) rejects yet another attempt by the ANC to use asset prescription, the expropriation of assets, savings and pensions, to continue bailing out failing state-owned enterprises, create an ideologically motivated and hazardous state-owned bank and a pharmaceuticals company, and prop up or create financial institutions – such as the Land Bank, which has recently reneged on its own debts.
1 June 2020 - About ten days ago The Economist reported that a combination of Covid-19 and lockdowns could drive up to 420 million people into absolute poverty. Lockdowns, it declared, were “blunt instruments” that could cause “immense harm”. Among the poor were more than 800 million people who lacked electricity – “hence all that burning of traditional biomass”, including wood, peat, and dung.
South Africa was not better off under the depraved system of apartheid – IRR
1 June 2020 - Institute of Race Relations (IRR) CEO Dr Frans Cronje said today there were no grounds in principle or in fact for arguing that South Africa was better off under the depraved system of apartheid.
31 May 2020 - In a sense, SA’s “new” future begins to take shape on Monday, June 1.
Price controls in medical sector risk disaster - IRR
29 May 2020 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) notes with concern attempts by government to negotiate what is essentially a form of price control for Covid-19 treatment in the private sector. The government is again showing its antagonism to the private sector, and its ideological misunderstanding of economic realities.
IRR congratulates David Rakgase, warns that property rights must be defended
27 May 2020 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) is encouraged to learn that Limpopo farmer David Rakgase seems finally poised to own the land upon which he has built a successful farming enterprise.
27 May 2020 - We should not ignore those non-profit maximizing actions that ultimately still require – and arguably enhance – the institution of a market economy as a vital perquisite for human flourishing.
