12 October 2022 - For over a decade, the Institute of Race Relations has sounded warnings about the threat to property rights in South Africa.
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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.
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.
IRR requests more time for civil society to consider compulsory NPO registration and regulation
10 October 2022 - The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has called upon Parliament’s Standing Committee on Finance to significantly extend, by at least two months, the comment period on the proposed General Laws (Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Terrorism Financing) Amendment Bill.
10 October 2022 - This day I sit down to write is different to all other days of the preceding weeks. It is the first day in a very long stretch that we do not have any planned Eskom load shedding for anyone.
5 October 2022 - Jonny Steinberg (“Years from now, the nasty parties will hold us to ransom”, September 29) argues that SA’s proportional representation (PR) system will result in ghastly outcomes once the ANC loses its national majority.
3 October 2022 - Something I can say with depressing regularity these days is that ‘I’m old enough to remember…’ I have traded youth and vigour for experience and memory (though the latter may be an equally transitory state). One recurrent theme I’ve observed is that there is something in the South African political psyche that awaits a strong, decisive leader, that can capture the Zeitgeist, and promise redemption; a Moses-style figure who will lead us to the promised land. Another is a yearning for a ‘different kind of politics’. So, when Mmusi Maimane launched his new political formation – Build One South Africa – I could hear echoes of what had gone before.
3 October 2022 - In his piece, "Hurling insults, Mr Hersov, won't help us resolve our challenges", Dr Oscar van Heerden makes some worthwhile points about Rob Hersov's outspoken attack on the government and on President Ramaphosa.
2 October 2022 - Wikipedia reveals that a defining feature of Super Crown Bookstores in the US in the mid-1990s was that each of them carried up to 80,000 titles.
It’s now up to NCOP to shield SA from grave EWC risks – IRR
29 September 2022 - For the second time in as many days, the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) calls on the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) to speak up for the national interest and stop bad law-making; this time, by rejecting the fundamentally corrupt Expropriation Bill, passed at record pace yesterday by the National Assembly.
NCOP must ditch deeply flawed Land Court Bill – IRR
28 September 2022 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) calls on the National Council of Provinces to turn down the deeply flawed Land Court Bill, approved with record haste by the National Assembly this week.
26 September 2022 - (This gloomy article, I should say at the start, ends on a slightly optimistic note.) Are things so bad in South Africa that we should just give up? Does the future under the ANC look so bleak that we should abandon all hope?
21 September 2022 - In amending legislation, basic education minister Angie Motshekga intends removing the rights of government school governing bodies (SGBs) to change their language policies, and to allow the state to step in and change schools’ language policies and “educational culture”.