

Gabriel Crouse
Gabriel Crouse is Executive Director of IRR Legal, and is a Fellow at the Institute of Race Relations (IRR). He holds a degree in Philosophy from Princeton University.
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AGOA, EWC and ‘respecting diverse views’
- By Gabriel Crouse
- . Nov 11, 2023
Last Saturday, I crafted a Press Release, headlined AGOA: why the silence on grave EWC risk? It began: ‘The AGOA Forum entered its final day

Trevor Manuel vs the Bela Bill
- By Gabriel Crouse
- . Oct 8, 2023
Former Finance Minister Trevor Manuel gave an interview with Clarence Ford on CapeTalk titled, “Our leaders are out of touch with the people”, which made

Delela is X made flesh
- By Gabriel Crouse
- . Sep 24, 2023
When last did you watch a play in a theatre? I think I have only seen one since the plague, so finding myself in Cape

Procurement law sets SA up to fail
- By Gabriel Crouse
- . Sep 18, 2023
Ultimately, every bid that goes straight for “value-for-money” with no other points is the most transformative way to spend R1 trillion, because it gets the

Race law and SA go together like curry and rice, but what about India?
- By Gabriel Crouse
- . Sep 17, 2023
Mark Shuttleworth might have privately breached the atmosphere with Russian cosmonauts, but India has gone to the moon. The lunar landing is just one more

Ramaphosa Ultimate Zupta “Keeper”
- By Gabriel Crouse
- . Aug 19, 2023
One of the most common phrases in South Africa’s courts is the imperative to “do purposive interpretation” of legal orders. In the case of former

When a white African is called the N-word
- By Gabriel Crouse
- . Jul 18, 2023
Here is a case of bloody, curious entertainment, with a political twist. It’s a long story, so tuck in. It starts last week when South

Disturbing details behind ‘jobs bloodbath’ data
- By Gabriel Crouse
- . Jul 8, 2023
The recent headline – ‘BREAKING NEWS: Jobs bloodbath in the first quarter as formal employment falls’ – was one among several arising from the release

Remembering the future: how to racially stream a family
- By Gabriel Crouse
- . Jul 2, 2023
In 1985 Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert, then leader of the PFP, a forerunner of the DA, chronicled his experience as a lawmaker in The Last

A deceptively avuncular affair: the last of the expropriation hearings …
- By Gabriel Crouse
- . Jun 24, 2023
The final public hearings on the Expropriation (without compensation) Bill (EWC Bill) concluded on an average winter evening in central Cape Town. There were five