30 January 2020 - Prescribed assets will not save SA’s rural towns. What will save them (and, in time, SA itself) is real economic reform that will enable businesses to thrive, create jobs and grow wealth.
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.
29 January 2020 - And it’s a salutary lesson for anyone vesting their own hopes in government’s ‘land reform’ drive.
29 January 2020 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) will be delivering to Parliament tomorrow the names of over 200 000 South Africans who oppose the government’s attempts to undermine property rights through expropriation without compensation (EWC).
29 January 2020 - The ink has scarcely dried on the Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill, 2019, up for public comment by Friday, and the ANC wants to change it so the executive, rather than the courts, decides when nil compensation on expropriation should apply.
28 January 2020 - The Institute of Race Relations today launches a campaign to get straight answers from important entities in the agri-business sector on where they stand on expropriation without compensation (EWC).
28 January 2020 - One of the remarkable results of the saga regarding amending the property rights section of the Constitution is the relative silence coming from corporate top-brass at South Africa’s financial institutions.
27 January 2020 - Agence France Presse would have us believe that the Harry/Meghan "crisis" has "shaken the very foundations of Britain's ancient monarchy". Actually, however, the "crisis" has shown just how solid those foundations are and why the House of Windsor still sits on the British and various other thrones well into the 21st century.
27 January 2020 - The dangers of the ANC's plans are profound and immediate for property rights and people's assets – and they are insidious for the constitutional order.
26 January 2020 - Overdue spring cleaning in late December yielded an unexcavated pile of documents and cuttings I had long ago assembled under the tantalising label “Useful/Keep”.
23 January 2020 - Finance minister Tito Mboweni will be having a tough, if not impossible, job trying to market SA at Davos. Anyone wishing to understand why could do worse than to note the remarks delivered by President Cyril Ramaphosa after the ANC’s recent lekgotla.
23 January 2020 - The ink has scarcely dried on the Draft Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill of 2019 (the Bill) – now up for public comment by 31 January 2020 – and already the ANC wants to change it so that the executive, rather than the courts, can decide when nil compensation on expropriation should apply.
22 January 2020 - The latest report from the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), Freeing Education, offers practical and easily implementable policy solutions to the failures in the South African education system.