13 November 2019 - In South Africa, half the 16- to 34-year-old age cohort are not employed...These young people, the truly disadvantaged, are overwhelmingly black. Their numbers have grown steadily for over 20 years. They will continue to be excluded in ever growing numbers so long as Mantashe and his comrades continue to impose their arbitrary quota requirements on what would otherwise be thriving industries.
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.
13 November 2019 - When Seven Oaks farmer Grant Meyer learned that two occupiers on his farm would be accommodated in tents by the Umvoti Municipality (Greytown), he was horrified. ‘Tents are just not adequate accommodation’, he says.
13 November 2019 - With the current phase of the public and political battle over amending section 25 of the Constitution approaching an uncertain and thoroughly unsatisfactory end within the next few weeks, the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) takes heart from the fact that more the 160 000 South Africans have submitted their written opposition to the change to the IRR.
12 November 2019 - The outright lying, disinformation, and news manipulation of the mainstream media reached record levels in response to the leadership changes in the Democratic Alliance (DA). Consider just how you were lied to.
12 November 2019 - dvocacy is a long-standing and vital process in the South African body politic. Whether one supports any position is for every individual South African to decide, not for the government to determine.
10 November 2019 - There is no need for race in any policies targeted directly at these problems, any more than race is a factor in South Africa's extensive income redistribution system via taxation.
10 November 2019 - Why not pivot empowerment policy so that it benefits people who are actually disadvantaged, rather than simply focusing on race, which has been SA’s curse for so long?
10 November 2019 - Die onmiskenbare leuens, misleidende inligting en nuusmanipulasie van die hoofstroom-media het rekordvlakke bereik in reaksie op die leierskapsveranderinge in die DA. Dink net daaraan hoe u mislei is.
7 November 2019 - First up for termination should be the pending expropriation without compensation (EWC) amendment to Section 25 of the Constitution.
7 November 2019 - Church men and women often see the conflict as similar to apartheid partly because of innate sympathy with the Palestinians as “victims”. But I suggest that there is at least a latent anti-Semitism that would allow resolutions of this nature to be passed without investigation and balance.
6 November 2019 - It is hardly surprising that, apart from one moment, Cyril Ramaphosa avoided the topic of Black Economic Empowerment at his Investment Summit this week. He was, after all, trying to give reasons to invest in South Africa, not to avoid it.
6 November 2019 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) today approached the Public Protector to investigate possible inefficient expenditure and maladministration under MEC for Education in Gauteng Panyaza Lesufi, and to consider remedial action.