Racism and mismanagement risk turning SA into the sporting pariah of the world once again – IRR
2 September 2020 - The IRR will today write to the Board of Directors of the International Cricket Council (ICC) to ask it to investigate and consider action against Cricket South Africa (CSA) for failings of membership in terms of Article 2.10 of the ICC Constitution.
1 September 2020 - The South African government has implemented a number of reckless and nonsensical policies – and has the intention to implement a prescribed assets policy.
1 September 2020 - It is interesting and revealing to note that the proposed recovery plan the government submitted to Nedlac – what has been publicly reported of it – lists food security as an immediate priority.
1 September 2020 - When he moved South Africa to Alert Level 2, and lifted the psychologically important bans on social visits, interprovincial travel and tobacco and liquor sales, President Cyril Ramaphosa more or less lifted the lockdown.
31 August 2020 - Among those who occasionally comment on this column is one Jack Klok, who blames the country’s problems in part upon the “misplaced idealism” of liberals. In particular, he claims, “John Kane-Berman and the SAIRR strongly promoted universal franchise in a centrally governed unitary state and demonised white rule because of their dislike of Afrikaners”.
30 August 2020 - Wie de hel dink Minister Nathi Mthethwa is hy? Waar kom hy aan die idee dat hy engigsins amper die reg het om die vryhede van uitdrukking, denke en geloof van Suid-Afrikaners deur die mag van die staat te wil beheer? Hoe op aarde kan enige mens dink dit is rassisties om met die slagspreuk ‘Rugby Against Racism’ op ‘n t-hemp rugby te speel?
26 August 2020 - It was refreshing to read Claire Bisseker’s piece on the shortcomings of business’s approach to SA’s economic future (“SA’s political economy is a merry-go-round; no wonder we’re sick to our stomachs”, August 24).
24 August 2020 - Our best hope of a bright future is to ensure we never return to normal, Steven Friedman wrote last week, and how right he is (“Return to normal will not put economy back on track”, August 18).
22 August 2020 - Gabriel Crouse argues why he believes the eight South African rugby players who refused to kneel in support of Black Lives Matter weren't displaying a racist attitude.
Nathi Mthethwa’s BLM comments a flagrant disregard of constitutional freedoms – IRR
21 August 2020 - Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture Nathi Mthethwa’s comments about the choice of eight South African rugby players not to “take the knee” before a club match in England in obeisance to the “#BlackLivesMatter” (BLM) movement amount to a disturbing and inappropriate interference with the players’ freedom of speech and association.
21 August 2020 - What kind of children are “woke” parents breeding? Misfits? Guilt-ridden vegans? Rebels?
Threat to expropriate pensions compels corporate SA to pick a side: the government or the people – IRR
20 August 2020 - Corporate South Africa has been ominously silent on the government’s openly stated intention to expropriate pensions and savings through asset prescription – but the time has come for it stand with ordinary South Africans against a policy that is at once fundamentally unnecessary and dangerous.
