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Despite McKaiser’s best attempts, he can’t shrug off the core elements of exploitative capitalism
South Africa was ranked 75 out of 178 countries in the 2014 index of economic freedom, outdoing other sub-Saharan countries and the global average.
Wasteful government spending of R24.8-billion could have been used for numerous beneficial projects, the SA Institute of Race Relations said.
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/ 7 February 2012
More than 60% of South African pupils choose English for learning and teaching, the South African Institute of Race Relations has revealed.
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/ 25 January 2012
South Africa’s adult literacy level is lagging behind other emerging markets even though it spends more on it, the Institute of Race Relations says.
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/ 23 January 2012
South Africa aims to create five million jobs by 2020 but has only created 624 000 in the last decade, according to a survey released on Monday.
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/ 17 January 2012
Researchers say an increase in public sector jobs is not sustainable to drive job growth in SA, adding a 40% growth is needed to reach the target.
Was Zuma’s ordering of the inquiry into the arms deal the start of a serious investigation or a move to avoid judicial scrutiny?
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/ 23 February 2011
South Africa’s overall development has improved, according to a new index released by the South African Institute of Race Relations.
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/ 21 February 2011
The ANC earmarked sectors for creating employment that have been shedding jobs for years, the South African Institute of Race Relations said on Monday
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/ 25 January 2011
SA’s human development index is rising after declining for more than a decade, the SA Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) said on Tuesday.
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/ 2 December 2009
The number of active private security officers increased 167% between 1997 and 2007, the SA Institute of Race Relations said on Wednesday.
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/ 24 November 2009
A recent survey shows that white people still sit comfortably atop the pile of income earners in South Africa.
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/ 19 November 2009
International comparisons show that the average South African will not live longer than 50 years, the SA Institute of Race Relations said on Thursday.
Nikiwe Bikitsha follows up on the responses received to her M&G column on single parenting two weeks ago.
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/ 9 September 2008
The committee cited insufficient public consultation as the reason for setting aside the Bill, which was intended to accelerate land reform.
President Thabo Mbeki faces an uphill battle to remain politically relevant in his last year in office after his failure to contain an eruption of violence that has killed dozens of foreign workers in South Africa. Mbeki was already under fire for failing to prevent a crippling power shortage when mobs went on the rampage this month.
The South African government is under growing pressure to send troops into Johannesburg’s townships for the first time since the apartheid era as African immigrants continued to flee a wave of killings and violence against foreigners. Several people were killed overnight including two men, believed to be Mozambican miners, who were beaten to death as mobs moved through townships.
As police announced the launch of "specialised units" to combat the deadly xenophobic violence in Gauteng and the National Intelligence Agency confirmed that it was probing the violence, the government on Tuesday stood accused of serious policy failures that "created a tinderbox of unmet expectations which exploded in Alexandra".
South Africa’s police and the African National Congress (ANC) intensified efforts on Tuesday to quell anti-foreigner violence that has killed at least 24 people and sent thousands of African immigrants into refugee shelters. Police have struggled for over a week to end the violent attacks on foreigners.
Opposition to a shipment of arms being offloaded in Durban and transported to Zimbabwe increased on Thursday when South Africa’s largest transport workers’ union announced that its members would not unload the ship. A government spokesperson said the country could not stop the shipment from getting to its destination.
Outside Luthuli House, yellow posters beg South Africans to save power. In the lobby of the African National Congress headquarters, a veteran of the struggle against apartheid is asking to see ”Baba”. The old man does not have electricity and would like to put his case to the party president. A receptionist shakes her head: ”He comes often.”
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/ 27 February 2008
A racist video — featuring University of the Free State employees on their knees eating food that had been urinated upon — was widely condemned by various institutions and political parties on Wednesday. The video, made by members of the Reitz men’s residence on the Bloemfontein campus, came to the attention of the public on Tuesday.
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/ 7 February 2008
The director general in the Department of Education is in denial about a crisis in the school system, the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) said on Thursday. This comes after Duncan Hindle on Wednesday ”attacked” the SAIRR for its statements highlighting the fact that most South African children do not feel safe at school.
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/ 5 February 2008
South African schools are the most dangerous in the world, with only 23% of pupils saying they feel safe at school, the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) said on Tuesday. Spokesperson for SAIRR Thomas Blaser said a Progress in International Reading Literacy study had ranked South Africa last in terms of school safety.
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/ 25 January 2008
South Africa’s white community should publicly express their concern and outrage at the murder of black people in Swartruggens, the South African Institute of Race Relations said on Friday. The organisation cautioned that the impression should not be made that the broader white community sympathised with the gunman.
Former state vice-president Alwyn Schlebusch died in Pretoria on January 7 at the age of 90, his son said. Schlebusch, who served as a National Party MP for two decades and held several Cabinet portfolios, was admitted to the Pretoria East Hospital two weeks ago and was in the intensive-care unit when he died.
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/ 30 November 2007
The Aids crisis, already one of enormous proportions, is forecast to get even bigger, says Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille. ”Though a slight decline was experienced this year, analysts still predict South Africa’s HIV infection rate to increase from its current 10% to 18% by 2025,” she warned in her weekly online newsletter, SA Today, on Friday.
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/ 19 November 2007
South Africa’s former first lady, Graca Machel, on Monday joined President Thabo Mbeki in refuting claims that more South Africans are now poorer than they were in 1996. Machel said that while there was room for improvement, the African National Congress-led government had done exceptionally well in the fight against poverty.
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/ 16 November 2007
Writing in his weekly newsletter on the African National Congress website, President Thabo Mbeki on Friday railed against the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) for making ”the startling claim” that more South Africans are now poorer than they were in 1996. The SAIRR, in turn, defended itself in a statement released later in the day.
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/ 15 November 2007
Service delivery since 1995 has not failed, the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR), said on Thursday. Releasing the results of a new survey, the SAIRR said service delivery numbers ”discounted any argument that delivery had been an absolute failure”.