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.
FreeFACTS - October 2018
11 October 2018 - The crisis South Africa faces is not one of inadequate government spending or insufficient stimulus, but rather one of an economy battered by a decade of hostile policy.
FreeFACTS - September 2018
1 October 2018 - This latest edition of Free Facts looks at the state of the family in South Africa, and argues that many of South Africa’s social ills can be attributed to problems relating to the lack of a stable family environment.
28 September 2018 - Pressing ahead with National Health Insurance (NHI) will steadily undermine South Africa’s excellent private healthcare system, and overburden the country’s already gravely deficient public health system, at vast cost to taxpayers, the IRR warns in its submission to parliament.
The Criterion Report Vol 1 No 2
26 September 2018 - More than two thirds of South Africans believe individuals should have the right to own property, and 90% are opposed to the government being able to take away land they own themselves, this second edition of The Criterion Report reveals.
The Criterion Report Vol 1 No 1
23 September 2018 - This inaugural survey of the electoral landscape shows the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is polling at 13%, with the ANC polling at 52%. Land reform emerges as the least important issue for the government in voters’ eyes.
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.
10 September 2018 - This submission is made by the South African Institute of Race Relations NPC (IRR), a non-profit organisation formed in 1929 to oppose racial discrimination and promote racial goodwill. Its current objects are to promote democracy, human rights, development, and reconciliation between the peoples of South Africa.
7 September 2018 - Read the IRR’s submission to parliament on why we oppose amending Section 25 of the Constitution.
FreeFACTS - August 2018
31 August 2018 – This report cautions against the risk of ideology more than the best interests of South Africans driving the trade and foreign policy decisions of the government.
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.
