News Focus: Cape Town CBD investment soars
Property development in the Cape Town CBD “skyrocketed” in 2025/26, with the total value of property development exceeding R12.8 billion – 41% more than the
Policy, not lack of maintenance, the reason for SA’s infrastructure crisis – IRR
Behind every dry tap and broken railway is a decision taken in an office, and the cumulative effect of those decisions is weighing heavily on South Africa’s economy.
Don’t miss tomorrow’s webinar on SA’s infrastructure crisis, and how to end it
An unflinching account of the state of South Africa’s core infrastructure in a new report from the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) is the subject
News Focus: Extreme weather across North America
As smoke from wildfires in Canada and 68 large blazes burning across at least 15 states blanketed the eastern United States, from the Great Lakes
News Focus: Trump, China and the midterms
US President Donald Trump’s primetime address on Thursday in which he accused China of interfering in the 2020 election he lost, and made an emphatic
How do we stop healthcare professionals leaving SA?
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.
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.