Celebrate women by affirming their property rights, IRR urges Simelane
Celebrating Women’s Month “without guaranteeing [the property] rights that are integral to women’s safety, dignity and financial security is meaningless, especially in a country such as ours where 46% of households are women-led”.
MPs should scrap new water legislation for threat it poses to economy – IRR
The National Water Amendment Bill of 2026 poses risks to agriculture, and the wider economy, which could imperil food security and worsen deprivation.
News Focus: fight for property rights continues
The five-day hearing by the Western Cape High Court on the challenge brought by the IRR Legal, the DA, and AfriForum against the Expropriation Act ended with a postponement on Friday to a date later in the year.
News Focus: property rights and women
They may have paid for, occupied, and maintained properties for years, but many of the country’s poorest and most vulnerable women remain exposed to the administrative failure that is the government’s longstanding and unaddressed title-deed backlog.
IRR Legal challenges Expropriation Act
IRR Legal made its first appearance in the High Court yesterday to challenge provisions in the Expropriation Act that threaten freedom and prosperity in South Africa by violating the Constitution.
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