‘The Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Bill of 2022, now before the National Council of Provinces for adoption, cannot fix the current schooling crisis and is likely to make it even worse’, warns the IRR.
‘Under the Water Services Amendment Bill of 2023 (the Services Bill),’ notes the IRR, ‘the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) plans to appoint hundreds of new water cadres to license, monitor, and direct its existing water cadres – many of whom are clearly incompetent and unaccountable.’
Expropriation without compensation (EWC) was flagged as a major risk to South Africa’s democracy at a congressional hearing in the United States last week.
Inexpensive and easily implementable reforms could provide a credible foundation for sustainable growth rates of 7% of GDP within a decade, allowing South Africa to combat unemployment, poverty and inequality, live up to its great potential, and emerge as a prosperous middle-income economy by the 2030s.
The IRR yesterday wrote to Minister of Employment and Labour Thulas Nxesi highlighting the detrimental impact of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) policies on the nation s unemployment rates in lieu of the latest data showing joblessness remaining at crisis levels.