IRR to Ramaphosa: 2024 elections at risk if you sign the EAB into law
11 November 2022 - The IRR yesterday wrote to President Ramaphosa warning him not to sign the Electoral Amendment Bill if it is passed by the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) in its current form.
IRR welcomes new procurement regulations, flags drafting error
8 November 2022 - The IRR welcomes the new procurement regulations recently published by Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana.
IRR paper sets out solution for electoral reform quandary
7 November 2022 - The IRR is proud to publish today a report by respected independent elections analyst Mike Atkins titled The Road to Electoral Reform.
7 November 2022 - Getting SA onto a productive growth path is an existential issue for the country’s future. Central to getting this right in every official strategy since 1994 — in fact, going back even further, into PW Botha’s presidency — has been the growth of small business. Small companies have been held up as an opening for entrepreneurship, as a strategy for wealth and job creation, and a counter to poverty.
5 November 2022 - The early part of last week was dominated by discussions on government’s response to the recommendations of the Zondo Commission. President Cyril Ramaphosa's message was that this demonstrated just how seriously the government took the matter, and was determined that this should not recur.
Has Dis-Chem changed its hiring policies?
4 November 2022 - Recent comments by Dis-Chem CEO Ivan Saltzman in an interview on the fallout from the leaked document that revealed a “moratorium” on hiring white people in the pharmacy chain highlight continuing uncertainty over Dis-Chem’s hiring policies.
IRR to publish key report on electoral reform in South Africa
4 November 2022 - On Monday 7 November, the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) will be publishing an analysis of the current state of electoral reform in South Africa by Michael Atkins, a highly respected independent elections analyst and leading authority on electoral reform in the country.
3 November 2022 - ANC ministers, officials and supporters get annoyed when you point out that SA’s constitution is federal and devolutionary in nature. This is a reality they do not want to accept.
2 November 2022 - One of the reasons South African growth prospects are so dismal is our pitiful level of new investment.
1 November 2022 - The release last week of the official strategy for professionalising the state (A National Framework Towards the Professionalisation of the Public Sector) has received much positive attention for recommending the ditching of cadre deployment.
31 October 2022 - The best possible electricity supply for a country is through a well-run state electricity company, which we had before 1990. The worst possible is through a badly run state company, which is what we have now. I suppose we must go for the compromise, which is through private electricity companies. This is a difficult matter.
30 October 2022 - I can’t quite recall the circumstances — clandestine, I seem to remember — in which at some point in the late 1970s or early 1980s I watched Africa Addio. Am I deceived in thinking it was banned then? I’m not sure.
