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The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) recently petitioned President Cyril Ramaphosa not to sign the Expropriation Bill. His office has since informed the Institute that he will be taking the objections to the Bill into consideration.

Weakening property rights will end any chance of South Africa becoming a prosperous society.

The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has invited the Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, and senior National Treasury officials to hear its proposal for tax cuts.

In a recent briefing to Parliament the Auditor-General came to the same conclusion as the IRR – the government simply cannot control its spending.

Taxes are too high and the money that the government does collect is spent inefficiently.

The IRR is deeply concerned about the future of South Africa’s healthcare system following the vote in favour of the NHI Bill by the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) yesterday afternoon.

The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has written to the CEO of Discovery, Adrian Gore, urging him to come clean on where the organisation stands on the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme.

The latest unemployment statistics presented in Stats SA’s Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) are another reminder that race-based policies, like BEE, have failed, and are continuing to do more harm than good for its intended beneficiaries. So says the Institute of Race Relations (IRR).

The contested Expropriation Bill, which among other things seeks to enable expropriation without compensation (EWC), is currently before the National Council of Provinces (NCOP). On 11 October, Dr Anthea Jeffery, the IRR’s Head of Policy Research, will be making an oral presentation on the Bill, which will follow on the written submission made on 25 September.

The Institute of Race Relations has made a submission to the Standing Committee on Finance in the National Assembly, opposing the Public Procurement Bill.