Open the economy, unleash the life-saving ingenuity of the private sector – IRR
11 May 2020 - The IRR notes the innovative initiative by Toyota to transform their HiAce, widely associated with the South African taxi industry, into an ambulance suitable for carrying Covid-19 patients. The vehicle is targeted at the emergency medical service – a sector in great need of support during this global pandemic.
11 May 2020 - Ground rush is a skydiving term, used to denote what happens if you wait too long to pull the ripcord on your parachute. At first you tumble serenely through a blue-green blur, but at an altitude of 400 metres or so, the earth clicks into focus and the ground comes rushing up to meet you. An instant later, you’re dead.
10 May 2020 - A few weeks ago The Star published a tribute to Lenin on the 150th anniversary of his birth written by Floyd Shivambu, deputy president of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF).
10 May 2020 - Die Covid-19-krisis is nie die oorsaak van Suid-Afrika se probleme nie, dit het net die einde verhaas.
9 May 2020 - South Africa is heading for deep trouble. Even the ANC knows it, and is consumed by fear, but for many reasons Cyril Ramaphosa has been unable to pull the ripcord and deploy the parachute safely. Here we are, then, hurtling towards the ground at terminal velocity. Can South Africa still be saved?
AfriForum’s court victory shows weakness of centralised government power – IRR
8 May 2020 - The IRR celebrates with many South Africans the court victory attained by AfriForum in the closure of the Zithabiseni quarantine camp. AfriForum and their legal team deserve congratulations on scoring a victory for the freedom of ordinary South Africans from unfair and unjust government fiat.
Covid-19 crisis heralds defeat of ANC – IRR
7 May 2020 - The Covid-19 crisis, deepened by the extended lockdown and draconian regulations that have shut down most of an economy that was already failing, will likely trigger a major political realignment in South Africa, heralding the defeat of the ruling African National Congress (ANC).
6 May 2020 - Brandaan Huigen (“Oom Cyril has got this”, 28 April) says that President Cyril Ramaphosa is playing a clever double-sided game of appearing to support expropriation without compensation, while cunningly neutralising it.
6 May 2020 - What sense does it make to send U.S. taxpayers’ money to a country that aligns itself with America’s enemies and seems determined to destroy civil liberties?
6 May 2020 - The measures taken to deal with the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic may prove to be more debilitating than its health effects.
Regulations on food parcels unconscionable, and open to corruption and mismanagement – IRR
5 May 2020 - Government regulations to centralise the distribution of food parcels at a time when people are starving are irrational, impractical and callous, and fly in the face of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s call for a national effort.
5 May 2020 - Before the Covid-19 pandemic knocked South Africa’s economy on its back, it was on its knees. Think back to the beginning of March: a ’technical recession’, catastrophic unemployment, a parlous fiscal position, and imminent credit downgrade – the latter coming on the day the country was locked down.
