Should staff be fired for refusing to self-classify by race, IRR asks consultants

Dispatches News

The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) is challenging ten employment equity consulting firms across South Africa to state publicly whether or not they will “advise

ANC “out of step” with own supporters’ policy preferences – IRR poll

Dispatches News

ANC government policies are out of step with the preferences of notable majorities – 65% to 79% − of self-identified ANC supporters. This is one

What SA wants – IRR polling results

Dispatches News

South Africans “want policies and politics that unlock job creation, reward merit, hunt for every cent of value, safeguard what people own, and put real

IRR polling shows what voters think policy priorities should be

Dispatches News

New polling insights into what South Africans believe would be the most effective approaches to empowerment, economic growth, and service delivery will be released in

IRR to ask firms about costs of race, sex-based “equity” targets

Dispatches News

What are the costs to consumers of compliance with the race- and sex-based employment equity “targets” introduced last month? This is the question the Institute

Don’t miss this debate on property rights and expropriation law

Dispatches News

Makone Maja, Strategic Engagements Manager at the Institute of Race Relations, will be joining a webinar discussion today on “land rights after the Expropriation Act”,

IRR asks universities: will you appoint on merit, or by race, sex quotas?

Dispatches News

When the Employment Equity Amendment Act’s reporting period begins on 1 September, “will your university demonstrate that it appointed the best candidates available – or

IRR to ask SA universities to spell out where they stand on race

Dispatches News

Will South Africa’s universities “forcibly (classify) their staff by race”, should individuals decline to self-classify when the government’s newly gazetted Employment Equity Sectoral Numerical Targets

Tough choices needed to fix SA’s public service – IRR

Dispatches News

Until “hard, uncomfortable political decisions” are taken, South Africa’s public service “rather than being an agent for progress and development … will remain a hindrance”.

IRR joins webinar to defend property rights

Dispatches News

Executive Director of IRR Legal and Fellow at the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) Gabriel Crouse joined South African Human Rights Commissioner Philile Ntuli and