How do we stop healthcare professionals leaving SA?
- By Staff Writer
- . Jul 17, 2026
The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) is approaching various healthcare organisations to discuss the effects of the emigration of healthcare professionals on the industry and on healthcare services generally, and what needs to be done to keep them in South Africa.
Cut procurement premiums to fix broken municipal finances – IRR Legal
- By Staff Writer
- . Jul 9, 2026
IRR Legal has reached out to all 69 financially distressed municipalities across South Africa that have recently had their national grant funding withheld by the National Treasury under Section 216(2) of the Constitution, with the offer of a lifeline in the form of assistance in shedding needless spending on costly BEE preference premiums.
IRR to research reasons for emigration, and what’s needed to halt brain drain
- By Staff Writer
- . Jul 8, 2026
The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) is launching a Diaspora Survey this week as part of its #WhatSACanBe campaign to better understand South Africans’ reasons for packing up and settling elsewhere, and what the country needs to do to convince people to remain, or come back home.
News Focus: IRR engages MPs on draft GEM law to fix mining
- By Staff Writer
- . Jul 4, 2026
The Institute of Race Relations is following up the release of its draft mining legislation, the Growth and Employment in Mining (GEM) Bill, by engaging
Changing policy mandate, not reshuffling Cabinet, key to SA turnaround – IRR
- By Staff Writer
- . Jul 2, 2026
Appointing new ministers without reforming their policy mandate “will do nothing to reduce South Africa’s 60% youth unemployment, lift the growth rate above the paltry
Performance of SA’s ports, 30 June, and tariff hikes in Johannesburg
- By Elnieke Bronkhorst
- . Jun 30, 2026
This is the second edition of a monthly feature highlighting some of the latest research by the Centre for Risk Analysis (CRA) on political, economic and geopolitical
Bill sets out how to restore SA’s critical mining sector
- By Staff Writer
- . Jun 25, 2026
Restoring South Africa’s mining sector as a key contributor to the economy is the thrust of a draft mining bill released by the Institute of
News Focus: Rietspruit River bridge and fake transformation
- By Staff Writer
- . Jun 20, 2026
Reports of school pupils in Emfuleni being compelled to find their own way across the stinking, polluted Rietspruit River because an unfinished bridge on which
Why should SA keep policy that has failed the poor, IRR asks
- By Staff Writer
- . Jun 19, 2026
After 25 years of BEE policy, Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Parks Tau “must explain why South Africa should persist with race-based laws that have
Make 17 June “No More Race Laws Day”, IRR urges
- By Staff Writer
- . Jun 18, 2026
The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has suggested that the government adopt its draft No More Race Laws Bill to “complete the work begun on