2 December 2020 - Women in Africa remain excluded from the benefits of property ownership, and this must receive the attention of African policy makers and society at large.
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.
2 December 2020 - South Africa spent just over a fifth of its 2019 national budget on education, but continues to deliver substandard schooling that is failing young people.
Expropriation without compensation a direct threat to rights of women – IRR
1 December 2020 - Weakening the property rights of women in Africa risks significantly undermining their equality of citizenship.
1 December 2020 - Last Friday both Fitch Ratings and Moody’s Investor Services downgraded South Africa’s sovereign risk rating by a further notch each, pushing the country yet further into junk status. South Africa is now at ‘its lowest credit rating levels…since 1994’, said the Treasury in its reaction.
30 November 2020 - Having again demonstrated their prowess in battle, most recently against women working at Clicks and schoolchildren at Brackenfell High, Julius Malema’s Economic “Freedom Fighters” (EFF) are now threatening the families of policemen and women.
30 November 2020 - One of the most striking lines in an article I read last week was this: “Americans embrace the Civil Rights Act of 1964 now more than ever.”
Property rights indispensable to brighter future for women in Africa – IRR
25 November 2020 - Women in Africa remain excluded from the benefits of property ownership, and this must receive the attention of African policy makers and society at large.
Beware the use of ‘salami tactics’ to attain e-voting – IRR
24 November 2020 - The ANC’s initial plan to give the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) carte blanche to introduce an electronic voting system by regulation has been stymied by strong public opposition. Now the ruling party plans to use ‘salami tactics’ (whittling away opposition in small slices) to achieve the same outcome over time, warns the IRR.
Public education is failing South Africa’s young people – IRR
24 November 2020 - South Africa’s schools are failing dismally to equip nearly enough young people for university, or the job market.
23 November 2020 - Speaking in Parliament earlier this month, Cyril Ramaphosa said that “we are in rebuilding mode and correcting the mistakes of the past”. The government had learnt its lessons and South Africa was on a good trajectory. President Ramaphosa was clearly also encouraged by pledges made at last week’s investment conference.
EWC or investment, not both – IRR
19 November 2020 - Much fanfare attended this week’s South Africa Investment Conference (SAIC), but any hope of painting the country as a prime investment destination is contradicted by data on investor sentiment, and undermined by the government’s own determination to press ahead with expropriation without compensation (EWC).
18 November 2020 - The investment conference this week carries high hopes for President Cyril Ramaphosa’s administration. It will showcase the wonderful opportunities on offer, and is intended to encourage investors to sink their money into SA.