Press Releases

The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) will be approaching the South African Council of Churches (SACC) to discuss the scale of the “moral fraud” that is fake transformation — a system of policies and practices that have entrenched corruption, hollowed out state institutions, and devastated public services. The IRR initially reached out to the church […]

As the widely publicised Driefontein case heads to court-directed mediation, the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) is following up on its earlier inquiry to the Ministry of Public Works and Infrastructure on the number of expropriating authorities empowered under the Expropriation Act. The Driefontein case, in which the Ekurhuleni Municipality expropriated the property of Business

The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) will this week be urging all G20 leaders and delegations to insist when they visit the country this month for the final events of the G20 summit on being held to the same standards of racial classification that South Africans are legally bound to meet. As state-required racial classification

Co-Founder of Nature Environment and Wildlife Filmmakers (NEWF) brings decades of experience to the first National Geographic International Explorers Festival to be hosted in Africa, as NEWF Fellows take the stage among global counterparts Durban, South Africa, 11 November 2025 – Nature Environment and Wildlife Filmmakers (NEWF) Executive Director and National Geographic Explorer, Noel Kok,

13 November 2025 Free SA has launched a national campaign opposing the proposed Business Licensing Bill of 2025, which seeks to centralise and control who can do business in South Africa, how they may operate, and where they are allowed to trade. The civil rights organisation has called the Bill a dangerous move toward economic

Johannesburg – A new nationally representative opinion survey by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has found a clear rebuke to political interests who continue to stoke racial divisions for their own ends. The findings reveal that ordinary South Africans have long moved past the historical politics of race and are united in their focus

A recent study by the Institute of Race Relations’ (IRR) has found that nearly all South Africans, from across all communities, want national sports teams to be chosen on merit, not race. This is one of the key findings in the IRR’s latest polling report on the current state of race relations, to be released

Johannesburg, 17 October 2025 – The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) warns that South Africa’s economic and moral crisis is laid bare by two alarming figures: non-financial companies are holding a record R1.8-trillion in cash, while 21% of South African children under five are stunted due to malnutrition. Says John Endres, Chief Executive Officer at