News Focus: IRR bill provides clear timelines for cutting title-deed backlog
The Right to Own Bill drafted by the Institute of Race Relations to show how legal reform that strengthens property rights can benefit all South Africans “provides clear mandates for eliminating bureaucracy that stalls action, and sets clear timelines within which all title deeds backlogs must be eradicated”.
SA joblessness 450% below National Development Plan target – IRR
In 2012 the African National Congress (ANC) adopted a National Development Plan (NDP) it said would reduce the unemployment rate to 6% by 2030. Yet, with that deadline just four years away, the joblessness rate now exceeds 33%, which is 450% below the NDP target.
SA: the patient that wants to be cured
I’d like to start my talk today by quoting from a tweet, lightly edited. See if this sounds familiar …
Celebrate women by affirming their property rights, IRR urges Simelane
Celebrating Women’s Month “without guaranteeing [the property] rights that are integral to women’s safety, dignity and financial security is meaningless, especially in a country such as ours where 46% of households are women-led”.
MPs should scrap new water legislation for threat it poses to economy – IRR
The National Water Amendment Bill of 2026 poses risks to agriculture, and the wider economy, which could imperil food security and worsen deprivation.
News Focus: fight for property rights continues
The five-day hearing by the Western Cape High Court on the challenge brought by the IRR Legal, the DA, and AfriForum against the Expropriation Act ended with a postponement on Friday to a date later in the year.
News Focus: property rights and women
They may have paid for, occupied, and maintained properties for years, but many of the country’s poorest and most vulnerable women remain exposed to the administrative failure that is the government’s longstanding and unaddressed title-deed backlog.
Let’s get over our Africa fatigue and be courageous Africans instead
A week ago today, I flew to Accra, capital of Ghana, with colleague Hermann Pretorius, head of Strategic Communications at the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), to attend Atlas Network’s 2026 Africa Liberty Forum, and present a case study of a project in South Africa supported by Atlas’s Champions for Growth initiative.
IRR Legal challenges Expropriation Act
IRR Legal made its first appearance in the High Court yesterday to challenge provisions in the Expropriation Act that threaten freedom and prosperity in South Africa by violating the Constitution.
Policy, not lack of maintenance, the reason for SA’s infrastructure crisis – IRR
Behind every dry tap and broken railway is a decision taken in an office, and the cumulative effect of those decisions is weighing heavily on South Africa’s economy.