In an article written for Politicsweb the IRR has argued that South Africa should revise its foreign policy on Israel towards one of constructive engagement.
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.
"Condemn us when children die of contaminated water." That, according to Cyril Ramaphosa, deputy president of the African National Congress (ANC) and the country, is one of the media's jobs. He was speaking on 20 June at the annual Nat Nakasa award for courageous journalism hosted by the South African National Editors' Forum.
Official data on wastewater management at municipal level show that very large numbers of people are potentially at risk, says the IRR (Institute of Race Relations).
South Africa's system of government is poisoned by a "toxic mix of affirmative action, cadre deployment, and impunity", according to the IRR (Institute of Race Relations).
Seven of the top ten performing municipalities, based on service delivery indicators, are in the Western Cape. Eight of the ten worst performing municipalities are in the Eastern Cape.
The CEO of the IRR, Dr Frans Cronje, says that it is time to scrap race-based affirmative action in South Africa given the damage the policy is causing to poor and vulnerable communities.
We applaud the business-friendly noises coming from some of your ministers despite the gains of the Economic Freedom Fighters in the recent election. However, we don't believe them. This stocktake will tell you why.
Instead of merely criticising ANC policies, it is necessary to put forward fundamentally different policies and ideas. So says the Institute of Race Relations.
As Freedom Day and this week's election approached, a number of foreign journalists asked me how South Africa was doing on the race relations front. My answer: "There are threats down the road arising from racial laws, but so far, very nicely, thank you."
One reason why financial corruption under African National Congress (ANC) rule has become systemic is that it was not strangled at birth. And we won't stop it by deploying the red herring that current problems are merely hangovers from the apartheid past, as some commentators do.
How the African National Congress (ANC) handles Public Protector Thuli Madonsela's Secure in Comfort report into the Nkandla affair is likely to confirm beyond reasonable doubt one of the key differences between financial corruption under National Party (NP) and corruption under ANC rule.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) increased its share of eligible votes by 400%, from 2% in 1994 to 10% in 2009.