26 April 2022 - Quite by accident I came across a review of a book about an historic event, which, I confess, I’d never heard about before.
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Freedom Day is good; More Freedom Day would be better – IRR
26 April 2022 - The greatest sin of apartheid – judging black people inferior and therefore undeserving – was a crime against freedom: the freedom of South Africans to live where they chose, marry whom they chose, work as they chose, associate with whomever they chose, elect their government and freely express their opinions.
25 April 2022 - Writing recently on Politicsweb, James Myburgh described how a German think-tank put out a report in 1936 highlighting the “dangerous” over-representation of Jews in high schools in Berlin. For example, in ten districts of the city the share of Jewish pupils in schools was higher than the Jewish share (4.3%) of the overall Jewish population of Berlin.
IRR registers opposition to permanent lockdown measures
25 April 2022 - Yesterday the IRR submitted a formal brief opposing draft Regulations under the National Health Act (NHA) that aim to make certain lockdown measures permanent.
22 April 2022 - In the frenzy for clicks, likes and shares, even the Associated Press quotes a rabid anti-nuclear activist in an attempt to sensationalise apocalyptic fears.
IRR welcomes proposal to scrap BEE
22 April 2022 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) welcomes the Democratic Alliance’s Private Members Bill to scrap BEE from government tender processes, and will be submitting recommendations to Speaker of the National Assembly Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula on how race-based empowerment can be replaced, and why.
21 April 2022 - Cyril Ramaphosa’s promised ‘new dawn’ continues, with yet another damaging bill soon to be opened for public comment. This time it is both the powers of school-governing bodies (SGB) and the jurisdiction of the courts that the president has in the crosshairs of the ANC’s national democratic revolution (NDR).
21 April 2022 - While SA cannot control global events, the government can make the correct, albeit difficult, policy choices that would lessen some of the negative effects of higher inflation in coming months (“IMF report all but warns of stagflation,” April 21). The most important of these would be to freeze the implementation of localisation master plans.
20 April 2022 - In the context of rising global inflation, sticky supply chains, the war in Ukraine and higher fuel prices, poor-to-middle income South African consumers are battered from all sides.
19 April 2022 - Elon Musk’s hostile takeover bid for social network Twitter has respectable left-wing professors clutching their pearls.
Over 20 000 sign petition against Employment Equity amendment
19 April 2022 - Over 20 000 South Africans have signed the petition calling on President Cyril Ramaphosa to veto the Employment Equity Amendment Bill (EEB), which IRR analysts warn will risk pushing unemployment above 50% on the expanded definition.
19 April 2022 - Party politics is a messy business, whether within a party or between rival organisations. Opponents trade insults and question each other's bona fides, while accusations fly left and right.