5 December 2019 - The Draft Bill to amend Section 25 (the property clause) of the Constitution to allow expropriation without compensation (EWC) has been published. It is to be gazetted next week for public comment over the December holidays, and then again for a short period in January.
Media
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5 December 2019 - Where liberty used to be called a left-wing idea by the Right, it is today called a right-wing idea by the Left. The only conclusion to be drawn is that ideologues on opposing sides are indistinguishable in their suspicion and dislike of the idea of liberty – for it undermines the ideological premise common to both that society must take instructions on how to live.
4 December 2019 - The government should leave business and individuals to do what they deem best for themselves, with some positive incentives to achieve a desirable societal result.
3 December 2019 - New United States ambassador to South Africa Lana Marks will have left her detractors scratching their heads at her remarkably upbeat message – but, in risking misstating what’s really going on in the country, she does no one any favours.
3 December 2019 - As the limitations of BEE become more apparent, there is a need to speak forthrightly in favour of an alternative. The country is paying a steep price for failing to do so.
2 December 2019 - The surprise announcement of Andre de Ruyter as the new CEO of Eskom was soon followed by Eskom’s dismal half-year report. De Ruyter must be a brave man to step into the most difficult and most crucial job in South Africa.
2 December 2019 - Tragically, perhaps just as Jessie Duarte appears to feel, Ramaphosa’s ANC would be quite happy to see us perish together as fools, compelled by law to look no further than one another’s skin colour and deny ourselves the unity of purpose most citizens know in their bones to be the only credible route to a better future.
27 November 2019 - Over recent weeks, the Institute of Race Relations has noted with concern the increasingly dire state of South Africa's finances.
26 November 2019 - This suggests a real shift by the ANC about the need for race-driven transformation. Is the ANC finally understanding that the job is greater than ‘racial transformation’?
26 November 2019 - We encourage South Africans to join the IRR in its efforts to make sure South Africans aren't sold out on the ANC's NHI.
25 November 2019 - Anyone seeking a concise account of the South African government's failures in tackling poverty and inequality need look no further than its recently published "25-year review".
25 November 2019 - The IRR’s warnings against the panel’s “130-page formula to destroy the economy” are still more salient now that the National Treasury’s October mini-budget has put the 2019 growth rate at 0.5% of GDP, the budget deficit at more than 6%, and the ratio of public debt to GDP at 60% already – and it’s set to climb to 71% within a scant three years.