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This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 26th April 1986 – The Chernobyl disaster occurs in the Ukrainian Soviet

The IRR Show Podcast on Chai FM

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We present the podcasts of the weekly IRR Show on Chai FM. The show is broadcast live every Tuesday from 09h00 to 10h00 on Chai

The Great Spending Experiment: What about the costs?

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Governments and central banks around the world have responded in a massive and unprecedented manner to the economic disasters caused by Covid-19 lockdowns. Not even

Another national disgrace

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“Members of the media are invited to a hybrid welcome ceremony of 24 Cuban Engineers who have been seconded to South Africa to enhance and

Is farm productivity already declining due to climate change?

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Climate alarmists would have you believe that climate change is already hurting farm productivity. But hasn’t farm productivity been relentlessly rising? One of the leading

Helen Zille’s #StayWoke: Go Broke – A Note on the Culture Wars

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Helen Zille’s new book, #STAYWOKE: GO BROKE Why South Africa won’t survive America’s culture wars (and what you can do about it), is being published

Reflections on Freedom Day: 1994, and after

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South Africans today celebrate the first post-apartheid election on 27 April 1994 – a moment of great change, and of hope. But when it comes

Critical race theory cannot tolerate criticism

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Twenty years ago the South African Institute of Race Relations published the results of a nation-wide survey of racial attitudes conducted for us by Lawrence

SA’s cold war plan

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China’s challenging the world order presents profound risks and opportunities for South Africa. Our policies must blend a realistic worldview with fluency in 21st century

A broken promise

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It is guaranteed that tomorrow’s likely sentimental hoopla will fall far short of acknowledging that Freedom Day has become an increasingly ironic milestone of South