I can’t recall ever seeing the term ‘hyper-local parties’ before this week, and perhaps that’s because local politics in South Africa has never been quite

The local government election at the beginning of this week could possibly be called what Americans describe as a ‘realigning’ election. It is the first

Will the ANC’s defeat in this week’s polls shock the party into reform? We share outgoing IRR CEO Frans Cronje’s view that it won’t. The

I do not, on principle, engage with online comments on my work. Nothing personal, but I can’t respond to everything, and neither can I justify

What should be top of the agenda at next week’s 9th Conference of the Parties of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control won’t be on

This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 30th October 1888 – The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to

The IRR warns opposition parties against striking deals with the ANC and EFF. The ANC is now a dying and parasitic enterprise. Its policies are

Last Sunday was the deadline for public comment on the Companies Amendment Bill of 2021. This Bill was gazetted early in October by Ebrahim Patel,

We are often asked in our briefings who will emerge to bring down the old buffalo that is the ANC, together with its little calf,

The likely defeat of the ANC in the 2021 poll opens the way to policy reform in South Africa. In 2012 the IRR first predicted