News Focus: Message, messenger, and trouble with Trump’s new plane
The New York Times has warned that the Trump administration’s delivering subpoenas to several reporters’ homes demanding they appear before a federal grand jury over the newspaper’s reporting on alleged security concerns involving President Donald Trump’s new Air Force One plane is “nothing more than an attempt to prevent the public from knowing what is happening in their country by intimidating journalists from doing their jobs”.
News Focus: History comes home
The 900-year-old artefact that signals the beginning of the shift of England’s attention from Scandinavia and the North Sea to continental Europe – and significant
Cut procurement premiums to fix broken municipal finances – IRR Legal
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
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: The Pope on Lampedusa
“This is a place where gestures speak louder than words. But for gestures to be human, they need a heart.” So said Pope Leo XIV
News Focus: IRR engages MPs on draft GEM law to fix mining
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
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
News Focus: the hottest it’s been
Dozens of deaths have been attributed to sweltering conditions sweeping Europe, with record-breaking temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius in some places. As the weather system
News Focus: 30 June
The arbitrary 30 June “deadline” set by anti-migrant activists as the date by which their campaigns say undocumented foreigners must leave the country is claiming
Bill sets out how to restore SA’s critical mining sector
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