17 September 2020 - In a column last week in Business Day, Carol Paton framed South Africa’s future in terms of the country’s fractious land politics. Referring to the recent spate of land invasions and municipalities’ responses to this – not least the recent judgment of the Western Cape High Court limiting the removal of illegal structures – she asserted that political parties’ prospects would be linked to the extent to which they could find solutions to contestation around land.
Media
Every week we reach hundreds of thousands of people through placing arguments in the media in support of the principles we stand for. No other advocacy group in the country does as much as we do to promote support for policies that defend your right, and that of your community, to make decisions about your own life free from counter-productive government interference.
17 September 2020 - Rob Rose is correct that South Africa is on the way to an IMF bailout (‘Like it or not, SA lurches towards IMF’, 24 August). This has been years in the making.
IRR plan to #SaveRuralSA: Why does rural SA need secure property rights?
16 September 2020 - Today, IRR deputy head of policy research Hermann Pretorius will be hosting an online Friends of the IRR Briefing with the IRR’s project manager, Terence Corrigan, to discuss the vital importance of property rights in rural SA.
15 September 2020 - The Institute of Race Relations has long warned that SA is facing a threat to property rights. Since late 2017, this has taken the form of the expropriation without compensation (EWC) policy drive.
IRR plan to #SaveRuralSA: How can we make life in rural SA safer?
15 September 2020 - The IRR will this week launch Land, Lives & Liberty: A five-point plan to save rural SA, a policy document presenting a simple set of solutions to make sure South Africans living in rural areas can thrive and fulfil their ambitions to #LiveFree in a peaceful and prosperous country.
Magda Wierzycka and prescribed assets: where the IRR stands
14 September 2020 - The IRR notes the social media reaction of Magda Wierzycka, CEO of Sygnia Limited, to an open letter from Hermann Pretorius, deputy head of policy research for the IRR.
14 September 2020 - Words are powerful things. They are the vehicle through which sentiments and ideas are shared, and thus through which worldviews are shaped – for which reason they are the tools of leaders. They make what is complex comprehensible. They inform, explain and enlighten. They can also confuse and obfuscate.
14 September 2020 - In a recent weekly newsletter, President Cyril Ramaphosa called on young South Africans, especially those in the townships, ‘to take advantage of the opportunities on offer to guide them along the path towards entrepreneurship’.
14 September 2020 - Nobody should be surprised that the recent decision of the Democratic Alliance (DA) to reject race as a means of classifying people has attracted so much hostility in the communications media.
13 September 2020 - The year 2020 will go down in history as the year the African National Congress (ANC) died. It is astounding to appreciate how far the ANC has fallen. How did this happen? How did the ANC go from overseeing one of the most exciting emerging market economies two decades ago to presiding over nothing more than yet another third-world failure of wasted potential?
11 September 2020 - How much of a victory, then, has Mr Ramaphosa won against corruption?
11 September 2020 - News that Standard Chartered Bank is suing the Land Bank to recover its funds is a stark reminder of the vulnerability of South African agriculture.