7 October 2021 - In September 2021 a new opinion poll commissioned by the IRR showed that only 5% of South Africans think land reform should be one of the two top priorities for the government to address. It also showed that most people (79%) want policies that promote growth and jobs, rather than land expropriation without compensation (EWC).
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6 October 2021 - Business Leadership SA CEO Busi Mavuso applauds the finance minister’s reform message and emphasises that success hinges on effective implementation ("Godongwana’s message should be sent to every public servant in the land," October 4).
6 October 2021 - Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana spoke out strongly last week about the urgent need for big structural reforms to boost growth.
IRR to investigate racial tensions in North KZN
6 October 2021 - On 28 September Qiniso Dlamini (17) was fatally shot during a scuffle with farmer Garth Simpson (68) near Glencoe, in Northern KwaZulu-Natal. The IRR has sent two Daily Friend writers, Terence Corrigan and Caiden Lang, on a fact-finding mission to the area.
5 October 2021 - The role of the minister of finance has been a pivotal one in post-apartheid South Africa, on both symbolic and substantive grounds. The minister is the keeper of the keys to the country’s money, and in a sense the grand custodian of economic policy. The perceptions around his (or, in principle, her) stewardship of the economy matters greatly. We saw this when Trevor Manuel resigned in 2008 – removing for a moment a respected and trusted incumbent from the role – and even more starkly in 2015 when Des Van Rooyen (who?) replaced Nhlanhla Nene for a weekend.
4 October 2021 - Following publication last week of the Digital Vibes report, the acting director general of health, Nicholas Crisp, was asked whether that scandal had damaged the government’s plans for National Health Insurance (NHI).
4 October 2021 - Wits sociology professor Roger Southall is in a pickle when it comes to the Institute of Race Relations (IRR). On one hand he recently used its annual surveys, occasional reports and commissioned opinion surveys as reliable data, but on the other hand underscored his opposition to the IRR by advancing the anonymous opinion of someone who “would not touch the survey with a barge pole, because its publication by the IRR meant it simply could not be trusted” (“IRR would do us a far greater service by honouring its legacy”, September 26).
4 October 2021 - South African politics has long been captured by leftists, resulting in a disconnect between the right-of-centre cravings of the masses and the doctrinaire political class. It seems that the silent majority now has a flag to rally around.
30 September 2021 - The new hate speech and hate crimes bill – formally, the Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill of 2018 (the Bill) – is open for public comment until tomorrow.
30 September 2021 - Stephen Nthite submits that the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has “contributed to the politics of polarisation” (“IRR stokes politics of polarisation”, September 28).
29 September 2021 - Voormalige en huidige lede van die Instituut vir Rasseverhoudinge (IRV) en ‘n rits ander “besorgde burgers” het in ‘n ope brief hul kommer uitgespreek oor die rigting wat die IRV ingeslaan het en sy huidige rol in Suid-Afrika. Hulle voel onder meer dat die IRV se huidige benadering die nalatenskap van sy stigters verraai en ‘n ondiens aan die mense van Suid-Afrika bewys. Lees die volledige ope brief hier.
29 September 2021 - Evergrande, China’s second largest property developer, might be close to collapse, posing immense risks for the country’s financial stability and growth. Last week the company failed to pay some of its bond holders, but it still has about a month left before it can be declared in default.