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.
Freeing Education - The future of the Class of 2020: How to build a bright education future
22 January 2020 – This report offers practical and easily implementable policy solutions to the failures in the South African education system.
Thrown Under The School Bus - The future of the Class of 2020: Gauteng as bellwether on education
14 January 2020 – This report examines grave deficiencies in education in Gauteng – and the implications for schooling nationally – and suggests how these can be addressed effectively.
How Zakaria got it wrong
12 December 2019 – This report analyses flaws in the debate on expropriation without compensation arising from faulty and often misrepresented evidence.
What’s wrong with the golden promise of NHI?
Read the IRR’s updated proposal to solve the South African healthcare crisis.
