Press Release: DA increases share of eligible votes by 400%
The Democratic Alliance (DA) increased its share of eligible votes by 400%, from 2% in 1994 to 10% in 2009.
Press Release: Worst spenders of wasted billions
KwaZulu-Natal accounted for 41% of all unauthorised expenditure in the 2011/12 financial year, followed by Gauteng with 36%.
Press Release: Opinion polls take SA’s temperature: people losing confidence
The proportion of people who believe that the Government is performing well dropped by 37%, from 74% in 2002 to 54% in 2012.
Press Release: South Africa to experience population shrinkage after 2030 - 25 January 2011.
Estimates show that from 2030 onwards, South Africa will have a decreasing population.
Press Release: Population would be 4.4 million more without HIV/AIDS - 23rd January 2012.
But for HIV/AIDS, the population of South Africa would be over 4.4 million more than it is today. So says the South African Institute of Race Relations in its latest South Africa Survey, published this week in Johannesburg.
Press release: New threat to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) - 4th December 2013.
The Government - or at least one part of it - appears once again to be trying to get control of independent organisations in civil society.
Press Release: DA/ANC support for the Restitution Bill risks disaster on a par with Britain’s scorched earth policy during the Boer War
Two pieces of pending legislation could together result in the expropriation of commercial farming operations with zero compensation.
Press Release: Africans have the least livestock but suffer most from livestock theft
African households experience 92% of all stock theft cases reported, according to the 2013 South Africa Survey, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) in Johannesburg recently.
Press Release: Three out of five cases against police are for torture
Some 62% of cases received by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) against police officers are for torture and assault.
Press Release: Security guards increase six times faster than police as robberies double and more
The growth of active private security guards over a 15-year period is more than six times faster than that of police officers employed for active police duties.
Press Release: Astronomical leap in lengthy prison sentences
Prisoners serving sentences of ten years and more rose from 2% of 84 000 to 48% of 91 000 sentenced inmates between 1995 and 2012.
Press Release: Business urged to do more to develop skills - 15th March 2012.
The South African Institute of Race Relations has said that companies invested in South Africa could overcome some of the skills constraints they face by doing more to identify and fund tertiary study opportunities for potential graduate professionals.
Press release: IRR’s South Africa Survey launches in Johannesburg today
A special edition of the South Africa Survey in honour of Nelson Mandela was launched by the South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) in Johannesburg today. The Survey is the annual yearbook on all social, economic, and political aspects of South Africa that the IRR has been publishing since 1946.
Press Release: Awaiting-trial detainees are driving prison overcrowding - 17 January 2011.
The degree of prison overcrowding for awaiting-trial detainees rose by 1 044% and for sentenced prisoners by 18% between 1995 and 2009, according to the South African Institute of Race Relations.
Press Release: Private sector to the rescue with training of nurses - 31 January 2011.
Private nurse training institutions today produce more nurses than public nurse training institutions. This is according to the latest South Africa Survey, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg.
Press Release: Canny amendments to the Protection of State Information Bill - 28th March 2012.
Canny amendments to the Protection of State Information Bill of 2011 (the Bill) might suffice to persuade a majority of Constitutional Court judges that the measure now passes constitutional muster, says the South African Institute of Race Relations. The amendments genuflect towards the Constitution’s guaranteed right ‘to receive or impart information’. However, they are likely to mean little in practice.
Press Release: Violent protests growing in size and number but most are peaceful - 27 January 2011.
The number of violent gatherings increased between 2007/08 and 2008/09 from 705 to 718. Over the same period the number of peaceful gatherings dropped from 6 431 in 2007/08 to 6 125 in 2008/09, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published this week by the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg.
Press Release: Five provinces register drops in share of total population - 5th June 2013.
Only four provinces had an increase in their share of the country’s population over a period of just more than a decade. The remaining five provinces saw a decrease in the share of their populations as a proportion of the country’s total.
Press Release: Provincial revenue wasted could have built 400 schools - 18th March 2013.
Over 400 schools could have been built with the R24.8bn of unauthorised, irregular, wasteful, and fruitless expenditure by provinces recently revealed in the Auditor-General’s latest reports. The South African Institute of Race Relations has calculated how else the Government could have spent this money.
Press Release: Public sector employment growing four times faster than total employment - 17th January 2012.
Employment in the public service is growing four times faster than total employment, according to the latest South Africa Survey, to be published by the South African Institute of Race Relations next week.
