http://www.sairr.org.za daily 1 2010-04-19T11:42:05Z http://www.sairr.org.za/sairr-today-1/research-and-policy-brief-much-devilry-still-in-the-detail-of-the-protection-of-state-information-bill The Protection of State Information Bill may now genuflect enough to guaranteed rights to convince a majority of Constitutional Court judges that it passes constitutional muster. But it still gives classification powers to hundreds of organs of state, bars independent or judicial review of their classification decisions, limits appeal to the courts (for all but state officials), and threatens journalists and others with imprisonment merely for ‘accessing’, ‘receiving’, ‘obtaining’ or ‘possessing’ classified information without ‘communicating’ it at all. No publisher CatherineSchulze 2012-03-20T07:35:16Z News Item http://www.sairr.org.za/sairr-today-1/research-and-policy-brief-changes-to-bee-present-and-proposed-9th-march-2012 “On 7th December 2011 the Government brought new BEE procurement regulations into law. It also unveiled a BEE amendment bill intended to prohibit fronting and lay down prison and other penalties for misrepresenting BEE status. If the Bill is adopted in its current form, this will be the first time since 1994 that jail terms will be available for failure to comply with affirmative action laws.” No publisher CatherineSchulze 2012-03-09T09:57:17Z News Item http://www.sairr.org.za/sairr-today-1/research-and-policy-brief-land-ownership-and-land-reform-in-south-africa-27th-february-2012 Dr Pieter Mulder has courted great controversy with comments that black South Africans have no historical claim to land in the Northern and Western Cape and also that blacks own a greater share of the country’s land than the government admits. His comments come against claims that whites owned 87% of South Africa’s land and that little progress has been made in changing this picture. No publisher CatherineSchulze 2012-03-05T12:15:57Z News Item http://www.sairr.org.za/sairr-today-1/research-and-policy-brief-muriel-horrell-apartheid2019s-chronicler-and-archivist-22nd-december-2011 Early next year the South African Institute of Race Relations will publish the 2010/2011 edition of its world-renowned South Africa Survey. The Survey has been in print every year since 1946. Its reputation was established by Muriel Horrell, who joined the Institute shortly after the Second World War, in which she saw active service. Almost single-handedly, Miss Horrell wrote the Survey for the next 30 years, and after her retirement continued to contribute to it. The attached tribute was written by Sue Krige. No publisher CatherineSchulze 2011-12-22T12:16:46Z News Item http://www.sairr.org.za/sairr-today-1/another-tribute-to-lawrence-schlemmer Professor Hermann Giliomee, one of Professor Lawrence Schlemmer’s fellow Vice Presidents of the Institute, delivered this tribute at Lawrence Schlemmer’s funeral service in Hout Bay on 31st October 2011. No publisher calitz 2011-11-23T10:47:41Z News Item http://www.sairr.org.za/sairr-today-1/tribute-to-lawrie-schlemmer-1936-2011 Professor Lawrence Schlemmer, President of the Institute from 1983 to 1985 and at the time of his death Vice President and a member of our Board and governing Council, died in Cape Town on 26th October. This tribute was written by Professor R W Johnson. No publisher CatherineSchulze 2011-11-23T10:47:00Z News Item http://www.sairr.org.za/sairr-today-1/research-and-policy-brief-revealing-the-master-plan-what-the-anc-has-in-store-for-south-africa-28th-september-2011 Address by John Kane-Berman, chief executive of the South African Institute of Race Relations, to Institute members and guests at the Country Club, Johannesburg, on 28 September 2011 No publisher CatherineSchulze 2011-09-28T13:58:32Z News Item http://www.sairr.org.za/sairr-today-1/research-and-policy-brief-2018green-monster2019-could-wreck-both-property-rights-and-the-rule-of-law-1st-september-2011 The green paper on land reform, finally made public on 31st August 2011, is part of a new assault on the Constitution and the rule of law. No publisher CatherineSchulze 2011-09-01T14:48:31Z News Item http://www.sairr.org.za/sairr-today-1/research-and-policy-brief-forewarned-is-forearmed-23rd-june-2011 In this speech to the AGM of the Southern African-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Johannesburg on 23rd June 2011, John Kane-Berman begins with Trevor Manuel’s National Planning Commission. He then poses 16 questions about South Africa's future. Thirdly, he shows where Mr Julius Malema fits in. Finally, he suggests how business and others might act to halt South Africa's downward slide. No publisher CatherineSchulze 2011-06-23T10:30:18Z News Item http://www.sairr.org.za/sairr-today-1/research-and-policy-brief-why-the-firearms-control-act-failed-and-what-should-be-done-about-it-21st-june-2011 In 2004 the South African Government implemented new gun control legislation in the Firearms Control Act. The Act required licensed firearms owners in the country to relicense their weapons over a period of five years. The legislation was billed by the Government as a response to South Africa’s high violent crime levels. It was widely hailed by South Africa’s anti-gun lobby and even endorsed by the respected Institute for Security Studies. However, five years down the line the Government has been forced to admit that its efforts in relicensing legal guns have been beset by backlogs, delays, and disorder. No publisher CatherineSchulze 2011-06-21T07:26:48Z News Item http://www.sairr.org.za/sairr-today-1/research-and-policy-brief-open-letter-to-the-minister-of-police-on-the-killing-of-andries-tatane-15th-april-2011 The Deputy Chief Executive of the South African Institute of Race Relations, Frans Cronje, wrote an open letter to the Minister of Police, Nathi Mthethwa, on the death of Andries Tatane during a service delivery protest in Ficksburg on the 13th of April 2011. No publisher NatashadeOliveira 2011-04-15T10:49:10Z News Item http://www.sairr.org.za/sairr-today-1/research-and-policy-brief-property-rights-new-threats-lost-opportunities-and-new-challenges-31st-march-2011 Speech by John Kane-Berman, chief executive of the South African Institute of Race Relations, at the launch of the 2011 edition of the International Property Rights Index by the Free Market Foundation, 30th March 2011. No publisher SherwinvanBlerk 2011-03-31T10:44:59Z News Item http://www.sairr.org.za/sairr-today-1/research-and-policy-brief-south-africa-finding-a-way-forward-28th-march-2011 The Chief Executive of the South African Institute of Race Relations, John Kane-Berman, recently delivered the keynote addess to a SwissCham Southern Africa meeting on South Africa’s future prospects. No publisher CatherineSchulze 2011-03-28T14:31:03Z News Item http://www.sairr.org.za/sairr-today-1/research-and-policy-brief-practical-ramifications-of-the-governments-four-labour-bills-22nd-march-2011 The Government’s New Growth Path envisages the creation of 5m new jobs by 2020. Instead, however, the four labour bills approved by the Cabinet in December 2010 are likely to put an end to the millions of atypical or temporary jobs that have proliferated in the past decade, largely in response to already rigid labour laws. No publisher CatherineSchulze 2011-03-22T09:17:58Z News Item http://www.sairr.org.za/sairr-today-1/research-and-policy-brief-five-bills-building-state-and-union-power-8th-february-2011 The Cabinet used the festive season to unveil five new bills: four on labour, one on land. All five supposedly aim to help the poor, but their predictable effect will be to worsen unemployment and build dependence on the State. Apart from the controversial Protection of Information Bill, these five bills are the first major legislative intervention by President Jacob Zuma’s administration. They bode ill for South Africa, as the Institute’s in-house legal expert, Dr Anthea Jeffery, explained at a briefing in Johannesburg on 8th February 2011. No publisher CatherineSchulze 2011-02-08T11:13:18Z News Item