12 March 2020 - BEE public procurement policies have long harmed the millions of unemployed and disadvantaged South Africans heavily dependent on the state for vital goods and services. But instead of ending costly ‘tenderpreneurship’, the National Treasury is intent on ratcheting up its BEE requirements under the Draft Public Procurement Bill of 2020 (the Bill) – gazetted last month for public comment by 31 May, 2020.
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12 March 2020 - The appointment of an independent water regulator is essential if South Africa is to overcome its perpetual water crisis. This is one of the key findings of a paper published by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) today.
11 March 2020 - n a Johannesburg supermarket earlier this week, I saw a man fill about half his trolley with small bottles of hand sanitiser. He was smiling at the check-out counter and evidently relieved. A nearby pharmacy has been out of hand sanitiser for the past week. This was textbook panic buying.
10 March 2020 - The time for rethinking BEE is long overdue. Until this is done, the storm will threaten. When it breaks, it may overwhelm us all.
10 March 2020 - We at the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) have written often about the African National Congress’s inability to shake off the ‘cult’ of socialism, notwithstanding the immeasurable evidence globally of the failures of socialism, in the economy, in human development and in upholding human rights.
9 March 2020 - No sooner had the American secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, issued a warning to South Africa that its proposed expropriation policy would be "disastrous" than his ambassador in South Africa, Lana Marks, said it was not going to happen.
9 March 2020 - As if nuclear power in South Africa did not have enough problems with its enemies, it has now acquired the worst possible friend: Julius Malema.
9 March 2020 - Even as the economy slips into its third recession since 1994 and registering growth of just 0.2% (in real terms) in 2019, the government persists with measures guaranteed to worsen our prospects by deterring investment, robbing confidence and spurring joblessness.
6 March 2020 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) yesterday sent a letter to Dr Mathole Motshekga, chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on Amending Section 25 of the Constitution, urgently requesting the postponement of all public hearings relating to the parliamentary process of expropriation without compensation (EWC) in view of the risk of such hearings promoting the spread of COVID-19, also known as the Coronavirus.
5 March 2020 - This misplaced myopia seems the only reason why – in all the in-depth analysis of last week’s budget and the country’s current technical recession – the NDR has rarely merited even a passing mention.
5 March 2020 - The latest report from the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) – South Africa’s Minibus Taxi Industry, Resistance to Formalisation and Innovation – assesses the potential for innovation and modernisation in this vital transport sector.
5 March 2020 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) will deliver open letters to Standard Bank in Johannesburg today at 11am and on Friday to the offices of Old Mutual at 11am. These letters will be in relation to their positions on the expropriation of property without compensation (EWC). The letters to be delivered are a hard copy of the open letters sent to both companies in early February 2020, to which the IRR received no reply.