Issue Alert: The Expropriation Bill - One Week Left To "Kill The Bill"
3 February 2021 – This special report warns that the government’s new Expropriation Bill is a draconian measure that must be stopped before it can be used to strip millions of South Africans of their homes and other assets without fair procedures or equitable compensation.
#SaveRuralSA: A Community Safety Charter
16 October 2020 - The IRR’s Community Safety Charter sets out a range of solutions geared to winning the fight against crime and farm attacks.
Growth & Recovery: A Strategy to #GetSAWorking
18 August 2020 – This report argues that, with the right growth-enhancing policies in place, South Africa could target economic growth levels of 7% by the end of the decade.
Because #BlackLivesMatter - What Institutions need to know about the BLM Global Network
21 July 2020 – This report examines the origins, strategies and ideology of the Black Lives Matter movement, and cautions institutions about the risks of endorsing it.
The Ten Year Lockdown, with worse still to come
4 June 2020 – This report shows that the easing of South Africa’s stringent Covid-19 lockdown occurs against the background of an unacknowledged policy ‘lockdown’ for at least the last ten years, characterised by ‘radical economic transformation’ policies aimed at changing the ownership, control, and very structure of the economy.
Keeping Liberty Alive: Through Covid-19 and Beyond
14 May 2020 – This report highlights the risk of political rights and economic freedoms being eroded through measures adopted purportedly to deal with the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the importance of society’s resisting such erosion.
Lifting The Lockdown Now
30 April 2020 – This report makes the case on economic and humanitarian grounds for the immediate lifting of the lockdown, with key public-health conditions, in order for South Africa to avoid the catastrophic consequences of mounting hunger, hardship and economic decline.
A Trim Down Approach for South Africa: Getting SMME's, the economy, and the country into a state of recovery
16 April 2020 – This report recommends that government immediately adopts a ‘trim down’ approach as a way both to manage the risks of Covid-19 and to avoid incurring dangerous economic damage.
Friends In Need - Covid-19: How South Africa can save #LivesAndLivelihoods
25 March 2020 - This report provides detailed policy proposals on how South Africa can confront the grave challenges presented by the combined effects of the Covid-19 outbreak and the underlying economic crisis in the country.
Thirsty Land: South Africa’s water crisis and how to overcome it
12 March 2020 – Among the key findings in this report is that the appointment of an independent water regulator is essential if South Africa is to overcome its perpetual water crisis.
South Africa's Minibus Taxi Industry: Resistance to Formalisation and Innovation
5 March 2020 – This report assesses the potential for innovation and modernization in South Africa’s minibus taxi industry.
27 January 2020 - Read the IRR’s synopsis of our submission to Parliament on the amendment of the Constitution to allow Expropriation Without Compensation.
