Press Releases

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

IRR polling… found that most South Africans reject not only the claim of BEE success, but the underpinning principles of the policy as well. 16 September 2025 Deputy President Paul Mashatile recently told the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) that Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) has been a “great success,” that it must be implemented