15 April 2019 - If we do not sort out the national crises of governance and economic growth, then no corner of South Africa will be spared the eventual consequences.
Media
Every week we reach hundreds of thousands of people through placing arguments in the media in support of the principles we stand for. No other advocacy group in the country does as much as we do to promote support for policies that defend your right, and that of your community, to make decisions about your own life free from counter-productive government interference.
15 April 2019 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) will be going to the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Wednesday 17 April to hand over the names of nearly 160 000 South Africans who are opposed to Expropriation without Compensation (EWC) to the Office of the Presidency.
15 April 2019 - The necklace – where a tyre is hung around the neck of the victim, who is then doused with petrol and set alight – was a potent instrument of terror.
13 April 2019 - Managing the continued decline of SA Inc is not an option. This Republic must become a destination that attracts winners rather than the opposite.
12 April 2019 - Government actions indicate an intention to undermine property rights, and to seize investments. This will undermine confidence and kill growth, entirely predictably. The mere signalling of intent has already done great damage. Calls for optimism and bonhomie do nothing to alleviate it.
11 April 2019 - Same-sex practices carry penalties of fines and imprisonment in more than a dozen African countries, in clear violation of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights.
10 April 2019 - Business has the potential to be influential, and a force for good. To play a role in dealing with the challenges of deficient education or the land reform malaise, it is precisely this that it must bring to bear. Given the crises that afflict the country, this is to be willing to court — and to weather — conflict.
10 April 2019 - There are key metaphors and litmus tests for the devolution of democracy and political power. One them is book burning. The ANC seems now to have sunk to that level, embracing, as its members have, a medieval impulse to physically destroy ideas and arguments it disagrees with. It is a mentality of the Dark Ages brutishly inserted into the present by the ANC.
10 April 2019 - Watching the ANC campaign is like watching a bank robber make his way through all the staff he has just held at gun point, promising them all it was just a big misunderstanding, and then giving them a hug as they once again hand over the keys to the safe.
8 April 2019 - Eskom, we were reminded last week, is drowning in debt and anticipates a shortfall of R250 billion in income over the next three years. Yet the organisation apparently still luxuriates in using race as a criterion in calling for tenders.
8 April 2019 - Does mining have its downsides? Of course it does, but in South Africa the positive impact on the economy, and on standards of living for the average person are so enormous that attempting to paint mining as anything but a force for positive change is not only disingenuous, but reveals ignorance.
8 April 2019 - We are, as IRR polling repeatedly demonstrates, a country of more common than clashing interests. Affirming them, though, does mean defeating ideas, old and new, intended only to divide us.