29 March 2019 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has launched its own online platform, the Daily Friend, to promote classical liberalism – individual rights, free markets, the right to own property, freedom from unnecessary government and bureaucratic interference, tolerance and the right to free expression.
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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.
28 March 2019 - The South African public needs to be clear about one thing: Julius Malema propagates and encourages hate. It is directed against minorities. It is dangerous. And it must be condemned. The great risk we run is sliding into a debate about the kind of hate he advocates and its technical or legal character. It is hate and that is what should be of concern.
28 March 2019 - Can you imagine a South Africa in which that is a normal, likeable, lit thing to say in public, on TV, on radio, on social media, in print? ‘If you don’t like to work do not eat. Work at least four hours for each meal.’
28 March 2019 - South Africa does not have a developed economy, nor the luxury of following global trends simply because they are popular. Devoting the next decade to making progress with regard to renewable energy will only waste time and resources we don’t have.
27 March 2019 - More free market measures at the local level do not mean doing away with regulations or even planning itself. It simply means recognizing we are all planners. The nature of planning changes and so does the prevalence of innovation and the ability to adopt it.
27 March 2019 - Israel also has much to offer UCT. So, the most valuable thing that UCT and other influential South African institutions can do is to persuade the various Palestinian groupings to eschew violence and get around a negotiating table with the Israelis.
27 March 2019 - Repairing South Africa’s compromised electricity supply system is essential if the country is to achieve the economic acceleration that is so essential to its future. Perhaps nowhere are the implications of this as serious as in the mining industry.
27 March 2019 - From behind the podium at a series of EFF rallies in KwaZulu-Natal this past weekend, EFF leader Julius Malema reproduced a range of now familiar and bigoted slurs about Indian South Africans.
26 March 2019 - A proposed amendment to Section 25 of the Constitution (the ‘Property Clause’) would give the government wide latitude to seize private property at a fraction of its value.
26 March 2019 - Mining policy and regulations ought to be light-touch, predictable, competitive and stable. That’s the very opposite of the reality for the mining industry today.
26 March 2019 - The history of Welkom, once a booming gold rush town, mirrors what will happen elsewhere if urgent policy changes are not made to halt the decline of the mining industry.
25 March 2019 - The African National Congress (ANC) has always been long on struggle and strong on solidarity, so this would be a means of demonstrating solidarity with those who struggle with public transport.