22 July 2020 - Drie weke gelede het Tito Mboweni, minister van finansies, sy aanvullende begrotingrede gelewer onder 'n refrein van oproepe vir 'n post-Covid-19 ekonomiese herstelplan. Terwyl Suid-Afrika na alle verwagting 'n hewige ekonomiese slag gaan verduur, het fiskale omsigtigheid van uiterste belang geword.
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.
#BLM: It’s a mistake to think more and better racism will help – IRR
21 July 2020 - ‘The mistake in BLM ideology is not that racism doesn’t exist. It does. The mistake is to think more and better racism will help the situation.’
19 July 2020 - According to The Economist, Donald Trump’s speech at Mount Rushmore to mark American Independence Day ‘sought to inflame a culture war centered on race’. The Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Associated Press made similar accusations. No doubt these news outlets felt their characterisations justified by statements on racial matters that President Trump has previously made.
19 July 2020 - Finance minister Tito Mboweni continues his lonely campaign for structural change (“Structural reforms — not spending — are the best way to achieve growth”, July 14). Yet SA finds itself at its current juncture largely due to choices made by the government and the ANC. To deliver a sustainable future, new choices will need to be made.
17 July 2020 - Evidence is mounting that to try and stave off fiscal disaster, South Africans will soon be facing the confiscation of parts of their pensions and savings. The vehicle is likely to be prescribed assets requirements – legal minimum investments demanded by the state in bonds or institutions of its choice.
Where NHI risks ‘life shedding’, alternatives offer real solutions – IRR
17 July 2020 - The IRR welcomes the renewed scrutiny of the government’s National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme following President Cyril Ramaphosa’s deceiving claims about what it could achieve, for it focuses attention on the effective, affordable alternatives that really do offer the best hope of delivering quality healthcare for all.
Government must tell us what the NHI will cost, and where the money will come from – IRR
16 July 2020 - It is deeply worrying that, with South Africa facing a debt crisis, the government talks up its National Health Insurance (NHI) proposal as the answer to ailing healthcare in the country, but remains silent on the multi-billion rand cost implications.
14 July 2020 - The message from the ANC in its discussion document on SA’s post-Covid-19 economy — “Reconstruction, Growth and Transformation: Building a New, Inclusive Economy” — is that things will continue as they have for years.
President Ramaphosa deceives SA in claiming NHI will cure the healthcare crisis – IRR
14 July 2020 - President Ramaphosa’s appeal to the country in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis to support the government’s National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme for ‘quality healthcare’ for all is deceiving when the same government is responsible for chronic failures in the existing extensive public health system.
13 July 2020 - About time too. Michael Shellenberger, a self-confessed “climate activist”, last month issued a “formal apology” for the “climate scare” environmentalists had “created over the last 30 years”.
13 July 2020 - The world was a little off kilter when, hours after Al-Qaeda jihadists flew passenger jets into the World Trade Center in New York in 2001, British commentator Simon Jenkins sat down to write a sober analysis of what it all meant.
9 July 2020 - Floyd Shivambu, deputy president of the EFF, recently restated his party’s view on land expropriation: “We need to repossess the whole of SA and say it is under the custodianship of the state.”