Skills, sound management key to creating fit-for-purpose public service – IRR
Fostering a competent, professional public service is foundational to South Africa’s prospects for economic growth and future resilience as a constitutional democracy – but the failure to create such institutions since 1994 “poses a grave danger” to the country’s future as a growing democracy.
News Focus: what’s hot in Japan?
Hot weather has been news in Asia for some time, with scientists pointing out that climate change has made weather extremities more intense, frequent and
News Focus: Strait of Hormuz open
The Brent crude oil price closed yesterday at $90 per barrel – down nearly 10% – at Iran’s announcement that it was opening the Strait
SA electorate’s “deeper instincts remain markedly non-racial” – IRR
South Africans consistently lean towards coexistence over conflict, opportunity over permanent racial management, and performance over excuse-making.
New Focus: Chagos Islands deal shelved
US President Donald Trump’s about-turn on the Chagos Islands – first welcoming the agreement to hand hand sovereignty of the British territory to Mauritius, then
News Focus: Islamabad talks
Pakistan declared a two-day holiday in the capital Islamabad ahead of this weekend’s US-Iran talks on ending the conflict launched by the US and Israel
Justice Madlanga’s comments on state procurement welcome – IRR
Remarks about failures in state procurement by former acting Deputy Chief Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga, chair of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Alleged Criminality, Political Interference and Corruption in the Criminal Justice System, “demonstrate strong agreement with the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) on the country’s public procurement rules, mainly that they have been weaponised against South Africans and require major overhaul”.
News Focus: Pope Leo’s Easter message of peace
In his first Easter Mass address as pontiff, Pope Leo XIV, the spiritual leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, called on “those who have
News Focus: to the moon, and beyond
The four Artemis II mission astronauts, first lunar travellers since Apollo 17 in 1972, are speeding across space to complete their historic lunar fly-around to