29 April 2020 - Ismail Lagardien mistakes the Daily Friend, an online media platform published by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), for the institute’s website and goes on to mistake the sentiments of a columnist published on the platform as the institute’s opinion (America First and ‘economy first’ are not the only options, April 28).
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Tying Covid-19 relief to race-based policy is wrong and self-defeating – IRR
29 April 2020 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) notes with dismay that racial criteria will be used to determine whether government relief will be extended to small businesses.
The vital need to lift the lockdown – IRR
28 April 2020 - Mounting hunger, hardship and economic decline underscore the necessity of South Africa’s lifting the current lockdown, the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has argued in its submission to the government on the national response to the Covid-19 crisis.
27 April 2020 - SA’s prospects for a post-pandemic economic recovery are now contingent as much as anything else on abandoning the government’s pursuit of expropriation without compensation. If that is not done, a post-Covid-19 recovery probably cannot occur.
27 April 2020 - It is fashionable these days to decry the role of the Western Allies in destroying Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime on the grounds that the Russians did most of the fighting in Europe and suffered vastly more casualties, both of which arguments are true.
23 April 2020 - Tourism minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane may be sincere in her belief that those criticising her decision to disburse coronavirus relief funds only to B-BBEE-compliant enterprises are motivated by a racist agenda.
Ramaphosa’s Covid-19 ‘stimulus’ an attempt to pull wool over SA’s eyes – IRR
23 April 2020 - The figure of R500 billion in the Covid-19 economic stimulus and social relief package announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday is disingenuous, for it does not reflect the real value the government is able to add to the economy.
22 April 2020 - We stand by this assessment, and the minister offers nothing to challenge its substance.
Mike Schussler says ‘It’s lives vs lives’ – IRR
21 April 2020 - It’s not a question of the economy against people’s lives, but lives versus lives. So said renowned economist Mike Schussler in a virtual briefing hosted by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) this morning.
20 April 2020 - It was a thoroughly stupid act of the SA government to arrest the CEO of Impala Platinum for allegedly violating lockdown regulations.
20 April 2020 - Ceding ground to faceless functionaries, and the silence that comes with the fear of being judged by anonymous accusers, defines the inestimably more difficult reality of living without freedom.
19 April 2020 - To require of poor countries that they replace coal with forms of energy which are both more expensive and less reliable is tantamount to telling them that they must forgo the enormous benefits that the industrial revolution brought to Europe, North America, and Japan.