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
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?
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
“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?
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
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
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
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
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
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