27 January 2020 - Read the IRR’s synopsis of our submission to Parliament on the amendment of the Constitution to allow Expropriation Without Compensation.
Occasional Reports
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.
LGBTQ Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: Perspectives of the region from the region
14 November - Despite recent positive developments, Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the more hostile regions for sexual minorities.
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.