16 June 2019 - Could it be that the priorities of middle-class elites are at odds with those of ordinary people? Most politicians, journalists, lobby groups, and business leaders will tell you "land reform is an urgent necessity" and that affirmative action is a "business imperative". Yet the IRR survey finds that only 2% of blacks think the government should speed up land reform, while only 1% think that it should speed up affirmative action.
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.
16 June 2019 - Vergewis jouself van die feite sodat jy die word kan versprei dat rassisme nie die probleem is nie – en wanneer jy hoor dat iemand nie saamstem nie, kan jy hulle die gelykenis van die idioot vertel.
15 June 2019 - From rhetoric on social media and pronouncements on talk radio to the ravings of politicians, you could be forgiven for thinking South Africa was on the brink of a race war. But the truth is anything but.
12 June 2019 - As opinion polls show, the foundation for uniting the middle is already there. But the moderate majority must now come together to strengthen its voice, gain the public hearing it deserves, and compel the NDR ideologues to step out of its way.
12 June 2019 - ‘Unfolding before our eyes is an act of plunder of private savings, wealth, investments and property, the consequences of which will be devastating if the government proceeds.’
12 June 2019 - The DA should never have presented itself as a better version of the ANC but, regardless, that particular tactic is now worthless. The party needs to be able to distinguish itself not in terms of the moral worth of its leader, but with better ideas that capture hearts and minds. That is something Maimane does not do.
11 June 2019 - Whether the NDP was ever seriously regarded as a workable blueprint for the country is a matter of debate. Cynics might argue that it had about it the odour of one of the “papers” and “strategies” that have proliferated since the 1990s. Perhaps more importantly, it never found unanimous favour within the ANC and its allies.
11 June 2019 - New research from the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) shows that there is a large moderate majority who broadly agree on the major issues, and who genuinely believe all South Africans need one another in creating a prosperous country.
11 June 2019 - Today the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) releases the latest in its series of Hope Reports as part of its campaign to unite the moderate majority of South Africans. Titled Unite the Middle, the report shows that South Africans have far more in common than not, irrespective of their racial or class backgrounds.
10 June 2019 - Driven by the realization of its economic prospects, we can expect to see geo-political shifts toward Africa and its partners for which few are prepared at present.
10 June 2019 - The human mind, he maintained, would outmatch machine algorithms, demagoguery, fear and complacency so long as we applied our faculties, being determined, deliberate, disciplined to always, always, he said, ‘seek truth from facts’.
10 June 2019 - Dating back to the mid-1980s, when the people's war was launched, we published as much as we could. Unfortunately, we could not prevail over the ANC and its allies in the media, in the churches, in foreign embassies, among slideaway liberals, and in various violence monitoring agencies.