11 February 2019 - As has been said in other contexts, the cover-up can sometimes be worse than the original offence. This applies to the DA's statements about its own role in the infamous attack on the honourable Ms Barkhuizen and her school. Worse than the party's rush to judgement, is its leader's misrepresentation of what its officials actually did.
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.
11 February 2019 - This past weekend, the DA’s Federal Council determined to shut down any debate on empowerment, choosing instead to adopt the ANC’s model of Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE), and the mantra that “race is a proxy for disadvantage” as a justification for its position. It was the decision of a party that has surrendered itself intellectually and morally to the ANC’s grand hegemonic hold over South African policy.
11 February 2019 - Assurances, however, tend only to confirm the threat, whose real victims are plain in the measurable reality of joblessness having risen from 1.9-million people in 1994 to 6.1-million today, or by more than 200%. That’s the political heat that needs attention.
10 February 2019 - Die ANC en die regering skryf en sê presies wat hulle glo. Hulle is werklik vyandiggesind teenoor Westerse demokrasieë – ‘n nuttige teken dat geen ware hervorming in die regerende party plaasvind nie, en ‘n tydige waarskuwing oor wat dié party eendag dalk bereid kan wees om hier te doen.
10 February 2019 - Those hoping for clarity on how expropriation without compensation would be implemented (and damage contained) would have been disappointed.
8 February 2019 - To enunciate grand, visionary goals is both futile and reckless in the absence of the basic infrastructure to make them function. To give land reform – under any conditions – any chance of success, the calibre and capability of the state must be enhanced.
7 February 2019 - President Cyril Ramaphosa’s SONA address reveals a floundering recovery effort that calls the likelihood of an imminent New Dawn into doubt, according to Dr Frans Cronje, CEO of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR).
7 February 2019 - After a year of headline debate, the two most basic mistakes - conflating EWC with all other kinds of land reform so that you’re either for all kinds or none, and imagining all or most black people support the revanchist race nationalist policy of EWC – has become typical.
7 February 2019 - To imagine that an empowered state with a self-styled ‘developmental’ mission (and afflicted with numerous ideological and governance pathologies) would guarantee the property rights of new owners after having abridged those of others is a matter of faith, not evidence.
7 February 2019 - Based on present performance, mandating pension payments into SOEs would amount to EWC of a special kind: the expropriation of opportunities and the destruction of value. The benefits – such as they are – would go to feed the state and its ideological convictions. The costs would be borne by ordinary people trying to provide for their futures.
6 February 2019 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has launched a campaign to warn South Africans about the risks to their pensions, and to take a stand in urging the government to concentrate on growing the economy instead.
6 February 2019 - Zenoyise John's discomforting polemic, "Hoërskool Driehoek and the origin of black anger", deserves considered attention – though the same cannot be said of the social media posts on which she founds her argument.