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14 August 2015 – Dr Frans Cronje, Scenario Planner and CEO of SA Institute of Race Relations (IRR), recently spoke at the second annual Sanlam Investments and Glacier by Sanlam i3 Summit in Johannesburg. He spoke of the high and low road scenarios for South Africa and what South Africa urgently needs to address to change our economic outlook. Please find the press release published by Sanlam Investments here.
3 August 2015 – This report provides a detailed analysis of the size, scope, growth and future prospects of South Africa’s middle class. A briefing on the middle class will become available in August 2015.
24 July 2015 – There has been a 96% increase in social protest action since 2010...The SAPS is facing a barrage of violent protest action resulting from the broken social fabric of our society.
22 July 2015 – The IRR has warned that draft regulations published last week will increase the costs of goods and services procured by the Government and thereby harm service delivery.
7 July 2015 – Data cited by the IRR showed that the number of cellular subscriptions in the country had increased from 8.3 million in 2000 to 76.8 million 2013, or by 822%. Over the same period the number of fixed-line telephone connections fell by 22%.
25 June 2015 – South Africa's industrial relations system has shifted too far in accommodating the interests of trade union officials and balance needs to be restored so as to curtail violence and reintroduce democracy on to the shop floor.
24 June 2015 – Job security for some has been achieved at the price of unemployment for others who might have benefited from a more adaptable and flexible regulatory environment.
10 June 2015 – In an article published today in BizNews, the IRR points out that the Government seems to have quietly amended the BEE codes to discourage the appointment of Indian and so-called ‘coloured’ people to senior posts.
4 June 2015 – The proportion of the national budget spent on social services has increased from 45% in 1994/95 to 60% in 2014/15.
26 May 2015 – There has been a 96% increase in social protests in South Africa since 2010, according to the Institute of Race Relations (IRR).
21 May 2015 – The IRR has warned that onerous new travel regulations (specifically the requirement that children travel with an unabridged birth certificate) to be enforced by the Department of Home Affairs within the next month will harm South Africa's tourism industry.
4 May 2015 – Contrary to what it claims, the Government is doing more to hinder than to help young people participate in the economy, says the South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR).
The road less travelled – swift action needed to prevent SA’s slide towards ‘rocky road’ economy