GNU should endorse HASA’s health-care proposal – IRR
The Government of National Unity should embrace the universal health coverage alternative proposed by the Hospital Association of South Africa (HASA) and abandon National Health
Imagining waiting times for treatment under NHI “terrifying”, IRR warns
If the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom can’t keep to its waiting-time target for hospital care, how will South Africa manage once
Just giving money to Transnet won’t get it back on track – IRR
A far better idea than the BRICS New Development Bank’s approving a R5 billion loan to fix Transnet’s rail sector would be “to allow the
Give South Africans access to better health care, IRR urges policymakers
Introducing tax-funded health-care vouchers, clearing the way for low-cost medical schemes, and scrapping prescribed minimum benefits to allow medical aid members to choose their cover
Motsoaledi’s dismissal of NHI qualms “disturbing and misguided” – IRR
Health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi’s remarks that opposition to the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme is simply warmed-up “swart gevaar” are disturbing and misguided, says
South Africans increasingly vulnerable in their homes, deserve better policing – IRR
Better, visible policing is becoming all the more critical as the latest statistics show that South Africans are increasingly at risk in their own homes,
Treasury challenged to come clean on funding, risks of NHI
The Treasury needs to “clarify the opportunity cost of the National Health Insurance (NHI) to enable the country to comprehend the multitude of imminent risks
Fixing infrastructure key to #WhatSACanBe – IRR
Public-private partnerships should be adopted to stimulate rapid investment in repairing South Africa’s rail network and its ports as an essential step in generating economic
Depoliticising public service key to necessary overhaul – IRR
Although South Africa’s public service “has become as much a hindrance as an enabler for society”, there are “clear paths to restoring it”, the Institute
Residents, not party interests must come first in local coalitions, says IRR
The interests of residents, and not other concerns, must be the priority in the coalition arrangements that have become more commonplace at municipal level since