News Focus: undercompensation threatens dependants, IRR argues
In two press releases yesterday, the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) underscored the multi-generational importance of affirming and extending property rights to South Africa’s women, and warned how the country’s property expropriation legislation posed a potential threat to children.
Competing with the world to keep skills means getting policies right – IRR
Race laws, insecure property rights, and corruption are barriers to investment in South Africa, and barriers to job creation and the realisation of a better life for South Africans, says Makone Maja, strategic engagements manager at the Institute of Race Relations (IRR).
What’s needed to equip SA’s “long-stifled” economy to “expand and prosper” – IRR
It is time for the Government of National Unity to “think out of the box” and embrace the key reforms now urgently needed to boost growth, stimulate job-creation and create a real skills revolution in the education sector.
Don’t miss tomorrow’s IRR webinar on SA’s jobs and skills challenge
Relatively minor amendments to labour laws could make it easier for millions to find work This is one of the key recommendations in a new
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% greater than 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
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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.