IRR seeks clarity on Dis-Chem’s position on BEE
18 October 2022 - Dis-Chem’s racial employment policy has been the subject of intense national controversy since the leaking of a document last week indicating that the company had imposed a “moratorium” on hiring white candidates. Clarity is needed.
17 October 2022 - Unlike most Capetonians, I like Johannesburg. I am somewhat bemused by the rising trend of “semigration” by the flood of Joburgers selling up there – or trying to sell up there – and moving down to Cape Town.
17 October 2022 - The institution by Dis-Chem CEO Ivan Saltzman of a “moratorium” on the appointment or promotion of white candidates has predictably sparked controversy, and rightly so.
17 October 2022 - Despite the depredations of apartheid, there was always hope that the ideology would collapse due to its inherent contradictions.
Stop racism at Dis-Chem
17 October 2022 - According to an internal letter that was leaked and verified last week, Dis-Chem CEO Ivan Saltzman demanded a “moratorium” on “the appointment of white individuals”. Saltzman added that these “harsh measures” were necessary to avoid a potential fine of 10% of turnover, which would roughly be R2 billion.
16 October 2022 - Mulling over why I instinctively feel it is an error to misperceive military superiority as a precondition of freedom led to my tracking down a parenthetical idea in a piece I wrote some years ago on Steve Biko and his 1977 death. This at the hands of a system which, at that very time, I had entered as a bewildered, respectably scornful but unmistakably chastened conscript.
14 October 2022 - The alt-media is awash with a ‘shocking’ revelation: A Pfizer executive ‘admitted’ initial trials did not test whether their Covid vaccine prevented transmission. Are opponents of vaccine requirements owed an apology?
12 October 2022 - The DA-led coalitions in metros across Gauteng might soon be history, for the time being, as the ANC puts its new support base in place. The anti-ANC and EFF coalitions proved fragile.
12 October 2022 - It is high time to put cabinet ministers, senior government officials and legislators on a metaphorical diet. Let their pay be commensurate with, and directly dependent on, the welfare of the people they govern.
IRR welcomes MPs applying brakes on compulsory NPO registration bill
12 October 2022 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) welcomes the decision of Parliament’s Standing Committee on Finance to allow more time for public comment on the General Laws (Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Terrorism Financing) Amendment Bill – as the IRR urged earlier this week.
12 October 2022 - For over a decade, the Institute of Race Relations has sounded warnings about the threat to property rights in South Africa.
11 October 2022 - The mostly deadly air pollution in South Africa seldom makes the press. It causes by far the most death, disease and permanent brain damage, but you almost never read about it in the newspapers or hear about it from green environmental groups.
