19 August 2021 - Whether pea-shooting from the sidelines constitutes a “battle for the soul” of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) is doubtful, but the claims contained In “The battle for the soul of the South African Institute of Race Relations”(Daily Maverick, 14 August 2021) do nevertheless provide a welcome opportunity to clarify what the IRR does argue for.
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Educate, don’t Indoctrinate – New initiative to combat and expose Critical Race Theory indoctrination in South African schools
19 August 2021 - The teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT) is starting to take place in South Africa’s private schools.
18 August 2021 - I am actually genuinely admiring of Phila Msimang and his achievements (“Address my concerns, not my (supposed) character”, August 17) — not least because, though I don’t know him personally, I don’t doubt the obstacles he faced purely on the grounds of his appearance and the meanings indiscriminately attached to it.
18 August 2021 - The scenes of desperate Afghans trying to escape the Taliban by clinging to aeroplanes and then falling to their deaths after take-off shows part of the horror of recent days in Kabul.
IRR to join legal action on election postponement
16 August 2021 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) will be joining legal action regarding the possible postponement of October’s local government election as a Friend of the Court.
16 August 2021 - Why is it so rare for the most comfortable, articulate and best-educated to grasp that what the poor want most of all is what they themselves have, and to see the value of putting their energy into thinking about what it would take to give the poor a shot at getting it, too?
16 August 2021 - How nice to be able for a change to praise a minister in the South African government. But Barbara Creecy is absolutely correct in demanding that the rich countries up their game on climate change.
15 August 2021 - Postponing October’s local government elections can simply not be allowed to happen, as it would signify that our Constitution has been broken, depriving South Africans of their right to regular elections.
12 August 2021 - Tomorrow is the deadline for public comment on proposed amendments to Section 25 (the property clause) of the Bill of Rights, as set out in the latest version of the Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill (the Bill).
12 August 2021 - Whatever faith remained in President Cyril Ramaphosa’s “reformist” agenda has surely been undermined by his testimony before the Zondo commission.
12 August 2021 - South Africa’s team at the Olympic Games is not demographically representative. So laments the minister of sport, Nathi Mthethwa.
11 August 2021 - Last week’s cabinet reshuffle was crisis-driven. But the crisis will not drive reforms to boost economic growth and deal with massive and growing unemployment.