Polling on healthcare reveals desire for quality, choice – IRR
Just under 60% of respondents in a 2025 survey by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) said they would opt for private healthcare if they
IRR’s blueprint for faster growth, more jobs, and rising living standards
“Concrete ways” to stimulate faster economic growth, generate jobs and lift living standards are the substance of an address this morning by Dr John Endres,
Dealing with societal problems depends on “reformed, effective public service” – IRR
A reformed, effective public service, is a minimum condition for South Africa’s achieving the higher levels of economic growth on which dealing with its societal problems depends.
A professional public service is the foundation of economic growth – IRR
A reformed, effective public service, is a minimum condition for South Africa to achieve the accelerated levels of economic growth which are necessary to start dealing with the country’s societal problems.
Skills, sound management key to creating fit-for-purpose public service – IRR
Fostering a competent, professional public service is foundational to South Africa’s prospects for economic growth and future resilience as a constitutional democracy – but the failure to create such institutions since 1994 “poses a grave danger” to the country’s future as a growing democracy.
SA electorate’s “deeper instincts remain markedly non-racial” – IRR
South Africans consistently lean towards coexistence over conflict, opportunity over permanent racial management, and performance over excuse-making.
Justice Madlanga’s comments on state procurement welcome – IRR
Remarks about failures in state procurement by former acting Deputy Chief Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga, chair of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Alleged Criminality, Political Interference and Corruption in the Criminal Justice System, “demonstrate strong agreement with the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) on the country’s public procurement rules, mainly that they have been weaponised against South Africans and require major overhaul”.
Scrap “fatally flawed” B-BBEE codes, IRR Legal urges Tau
IRR Legal has urged Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition Parks Tau to withdraw the fatally flawed draft amendments to the “B-BBEE” Codes of Good Practice, warning that they are “procedurally defective, legally uninterpretable, substantively unlawful, and highly vulnerable to judicial review under the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act”.
News Focus: BEE under pressure
The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has written to Deputy President Paul Mashatile challenging him to provide concrete evidence for his claim that B-BBEE has proved to be a “great success” and a non-negotiable part of South Africa’s economic progress.