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.
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