This is the first article in a four-part series penned by the Institute of Race Relation’s Dr Frans Cronje. The series analyses South Africa’s political and economic long-term future. Two scenarios are sketched, one which Cronje believes will emerge within the next 12 to 24 months.
This is the second article in a four-part series penned by the Institute of Race Relation’s Dr Frans Cronje. Two scenarios are sketched, one which Cronje believes will emerge within the next 12 to 24 months.
This is the third article in a four-part series penned by the Institute of Race Relation’s Dr Frans Cronje. Two scenarios are sketched, one which Cronje believes will emerge within the next 12 to 24 months
This is the final article in a four-part series penned by the Institute of Race Relation’s Dr Frans Cronje. Two scenarios are sketched, one which Cronje believes will emerge within the next 12 to 24 months
Despite great outrage over the Marikana massacre, South Africans are not uniting to demand the resignation of the national police commissioner and the minister of police.
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is pressing ahead with controversial proposals to limit intellectual property (IP) rights, including patent rights. This has significant implications for healthcare and other sectors in South Africa.
7 February 2018 - "The whole success of what South Africa has set out to achieve over the past 28 years will be determined by its economy
John Kane-Berman, the CEO of the Institute, says that Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) is the "ultimate trickle-down fantasy".
Sara Gon questions Panyaza Lesufi's conduct, and the media's rush to judgement, in the outrage over school hair rules.
The Cato Institute, the libertarian think-tank based in Washington DC, recently published a set of 24 essays refuting the arguments of the French economist Thomas Piketty in his bestselling book Capital in the 21st Century.
The IRR plots the roads SA could take in the next nine years.
The discipline of development studies has a famous comparison in the economic histories of Malaysia and Ghana, which suggests that the only similarity between the economies of these two countries is the date of their political independence
Frans Cronje writes about the policy battle between the 'verkramptes' and 'verligtes' in the ANC and increasing evidence that the 'verligtes' could win.
In his fortnightly column in Business Day, the Institute's CEO, John Kane-Berman, questions whether the recent cancellation of several Non Profit Organisations' registration by the Department of Social Development really was accidental. In the light of envisioned legislation to put the country's NPOs under state control, the State could have had a more sinister agenda.
The government is pressing ahead with implementing the National Health Insurance (NHI) proposal even though the state still does not know how much the new system will cost or how it can be financed. The Department of Health (DoH) seems determined to proceed by trial-and-error, irrespective of the massive damage that is likely to result.
Some people may also realise that a more realistic projection, based on the cost of extending some 300 prescribed minimum benefits (PMBs) to all South Africans, would put NHI spending at R400bn in today’s terms. (However, since spending on health care has grown by 9% a year on average since 2011, the NHI funding need could be R790bn a year by 2025.)
In his fortnightly column in Business Day, John Kane-Berman argues that the ANC'S quest is to "remove checks and balances step by step so that it can eventually wield untrammelled power."
1 March 2018 - President Cyril Ramaphosa has recently claimed the ruling party must move ahead with land expropriation without compensation because of a 'pressing' and 'urgent' hunger for farming land among South Africans.
’n Verslag wat in Oktober deur die Instituut vir Rasseverhoudinge (IRV) uitgereik is, maak dit duidelik dat Suid-Afrika steeds met ’n verskriklike misdaadaanslag te kampe het.
3 January 2018 - Given the resolution taken at the ANC’s national conference on pushing for ‘expropriation without compensation’, it was fitting that The Star ended the year with Lisa Del Grande’s most interesting contribution on land reform.
