1 July 2020 - South Africa’s economy, battered and bruised, is now reopening. Over the past few weeks, much has been said about how the post-Covid-19 world would (or at least needed to be) vastly different from what went before.
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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.
1 July 2020 - Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni’s calls for pension funds to be used to fund government expenditure is noted with great concern.
GDP slump underlines pressing need for real economic reforms – IRR
1 July 2020 - South Africa’s 2% slide in GDP underlines the inescapable challenge facing President Cyril Ramaphosa’s administration: far-reaching economic reforms are unavoidable if South Africa is to stage an economic recovery.
Government is set on exploiting Covid-19 to blame its way out of crisis – IRR
30 June 2020 - Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni’s calls for pension funds to be used to fund government expenditure is noted with great concern.
30 June 2020 - In recent days, the deep-seated contradictions in South Africa’s governance thinking has been highlighted by two developments. The first was confirmation that the country would be seeking funding from the International Monetary Fund; the second, that the national Assembly would be reconvening its ad hoc committee on amending Section 25 of the Constitution.
29 June 2020 - The Guardian, a one-time liberal British newspaper that is now very woke, green, and Brussophile, recently took the opportunity to throw a hissy fit against Boris Johnson’s foreign secretary, Dominic Raab.
29 June 2020 - The policy of affirmative action and BEE as implemented today is a disastrous mistake and we will rue the day the people of SA were willy-nilly brought to accept it.
IRR to IMF and UNHRC: SA policy and debt crisis a threat to human rights
26 June 2020 - Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s warning in his emergency budget that South Africa’s debt situation is becoming increasingly dangerous is ominous evidence of the strong case for approaching international creditors for financial support.
26 June 2020 - In presenting the emergency budget, finance minister Tito Mboweni did the country a service by highlighting the scale of South Africa’s fiscal malaise. With a budget deficit close to 15% of GDP and a sovereign debt crisis looming, this is a matter that threatens South Africa’s future.
Mboweni says SA must act now … but unveils a plan act now-now instead – IRR
25 June 2020 - There is no getting away from the fact that Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni has disappointed South Africans with a budget speech that is all talk and no action.
Mboweni’s choice is straightforward: SOEs or SMEs – IRR
24 June 2020 - The success of Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni’s critical performance today will hinge on whether he introduces the pro-growth, pro-enterprise reforms desperately needed for a recovery capable of getting South Africa and its people back to work.
24 June 2020 - President Cyril Ramaphosa said in his latest weekly newsletter that the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated lockdown would aggravate ‘an unemployment crisis and weak economic growth’ and that ‘difficult decisions and difficult days lie ahead’.