3 December 2019 - New United States ambassador to South Africa Lana Marks will have left her detractors scratching their heads at her remarkably upbeat message – but, in risking misstating what’s really going on in the country, she does no one any favours.
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3 December 2019 - As the limitations of BEE become more apparent, there is a need to speak forthrightly in favour of an alternative. The country is paying a steep price for failing to do so.
2 December 2019 - The surprise announcement of Andre de Ruyter as the new CEO of Eskom was soon followed by Eskom’s dismal half-year report. De Ruyter must be a brave man to step into the most difficult and most crucial job in South Africa.
2 December 2019 - Tragically, perhaps just as Jessie Duarte appears to feel, Ramaphosa’s ANC would be quite happy to see us perish together as fools, compelled by law to look no further than one another’s skin colour and deny ourselves the unity of purpose most citizens know in their bones to be the only credible route to a better future.
27 November 2019 - Over recent weeks, the Institute of Race Relations has noted with concern the increasingly dire state of South Africa's finances.
26 November 2019 - This suggests a real shift by the ANC about the need for race-driven transformation. Is the ANC finally understanding that the job is greater than ‘racial transformation’?
26 November 2019 - We encourage South Africans to join the IRR in its efforts to make sure South Africans aren't sold out on the ANC's NHI.
25 November 2019 - Anyone seeking a concise account of the South African government's failures in tackling poverty and inequality need look no further than its recently published "25-year review".
25 November 2019 - The IRR’s warnings against the panel’s “130-page formula to destroy the economy” are still more salient now that the National Treasury’s October mini-budget has put the 2019 growth rate at 0.5% of GDP, the budget deficit at more than 6%, and the ratio of public debt to GDP at 60% already – and it’s set to climb to 71% within a scant three years.
24 November 2019 - Ons het die SAL nie nodig nie – sluit dit net en laat die herinnering daaraan as ’n gedenkteken aan die onbevoegdheid van die ANC voortleef.
20 November 2019 - In a briefing at the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) yesterday, renowned economist Mike Schussler shared some shocking figures, noting that South Africa was powering headlong towards a fiscal cliff and that a policy of prescribed assets was increasingly likely.
20 November 2019 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) notes that the futures of more than 14 000 pupils in Gauteng remain in jeopardy due to the inability of provincial MEC for Education Panyaza Lesufi to administer a chaotic system his department created.