Going For Growth - Submission on Economic transformation, inclusive growth and competitiveness: Towards an Economic Strategy for South Africa
The IRR made a submission on the economic policy document released by the minister of finance, Tito Mboweni. Although the IRR broadly welcomes the document it argues that it doesn’t go far enough and warns that there a number f risks which could prevent the reforms being enacted
What's wrong with the golden promise of NHI?
21 August 2018 - The government claims that its proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) system will reduce the costs of healthcare and provide all South Africans (now numbering some 58 million people) with ‘quality’ health services that are free at the point of delivery.
South Africa's NHI Scheme
18 September 2018 - This report lays bare the appalling scale of deficiency, mismanagement, negligence and corruption in the public health sector which the government intends to be the core of its proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) system.
Reasons For Hope 2019 - Unite The Middle
10 June 2019 - The latest Hope report shows that racism is not the biggest problem in South Africa, and that a large majority of moderate South Africans agree on the major issues of the day.
7 April 2019 – This ‘Voter cheat sheet’ is a simple, three-page summary table that sets out every main voter position and characteristic from the IRR's February poll, ranked from 0%-100%.
Why mining still matters
18 March 2019 – This report warns that without urgent policy interventions to revitalise the mining industry, the country’s entire economy will wither.
Broken Blue Line 3
30 October 2018 - This is the third report of the Broken Blue Line project – the previous two having been published by the IRR in 2011 and 2015. As with the two previous reports this third report examines the extent to which the police are involved in perpetrating criminal violence.
Executive Chaos - Discontinuity in the National Executive: 2009-2018
18 October 2018 - The scale of South Africa’s discontinuity in executive leadership is undoubtedly one of the biggest contributing factors to the ANC’s failure to deliver over the last nine years.
South Africa's geological endowment
21 September 2018 – This report examines the scope for making the most of the South Africa’s underlying geology, the foundation of a wide range of vital economic sectors from mining and industry to tourism.
Life in South Africa: Reasons for Hope
29 August 2018 – Our latest report, ‘Life in South Africa: Reasons for Hope’, reminds South Africans of the significant progress the country has made under democracy, and the scope for resuming an upward trajectory towards growth and optimism.
23 July 2018 - The latest report from the Institute of Race Relations makes the case for thorough-going reform of South Africa’s approach to empowerment, warning that present policy is not benefiting the poor, most of whom remain economic ‘outsiders’.
5 July 2018 – The risk is that Expropriation without Compensation will do little to resolve South Africa’s deep socio-economic malaise, but, rather, will deepen it.
