26 November 2019 - This suggests a real shift by the ANC about the need for race-driven transformation. Is the ANC finally understanding that the job is greater than ‘racial transformation’?
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26 November 2019 - We encourage South Africans to join the IRR in its efforts to make sure South Africans aren't sold out on the ANC's NHI.
25 November 2019 - Anyone seeking a concise account of the South African government's failures in tackling poverty and inequality need look no further than its recently published "25-year review".
25 November 2019 - The IRR’s warnings against the panel’s “130-page formula to destroy the economy” are still more salient now that the National Treasury’s October mini-budget has put the 2019 growth rate at 0.5% of GDP, the budget deficit at more than 6%, and the ratio of public debt to GDP at 60% already – and it’s set to climb to 71% within a scant three years.
24 November 2019 - Ons het die SAL nie nodig nie – sluit dit net en laat die herinnering daaraan as ’n gedenkteken aan die onbevoegdheid van die ANC voortleef.
20 November 2019 - In a briefing at the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) yesterday, renowned economist Mike Schussler shared some shocking figures, noting that South Africa was powering headlong towards a fiscal cliff and that a policy of prescribed assets was increasingly likely.
20 November 2019 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) notes that the futures of more than 14 000 pupils in Gauteng remain in jeopardy due to the inability of provincial MEC for Education Panyaza Lesufi to administer a chaotic system his department created.
19 November 2019 - The state of South Africa’s construction industry is a sign of the state of the economy as managed by the African National Congress (ANC): it’s in terminal decline.
19 November 2019 - Today marks the start of a ten-day countdown to save healthcare in South Africa.
18 November 2019 - There is no question that most South Africans who need and deserve real help 25 years down the line are black, and it is they who will be the primary beneficiaries of any policy based on disadvantage rather than race. Race casts a long shadow over SA society, but it is the persistent disadvantage — which burdens black people most of all — that needs fixing.
18 November 2019 - If part of President Ramaphosa's much-vaunted "game plan" includes one to deal with a major public sector strike, he would be unwise to reveal it. But his two years in office have yet to show that he has the necessary qualities of courage and generalship.
18 November 2019 - The biggest obstacle to helping the poor out of poverty could well be the intuitive assumption that poor people are helpless. One consequence is that society squanders the most dynamic mechanism available for improving people’s lives.