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Makone Maja

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Oct 1, 2026
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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Makone Maja | Oct 01, 2026

    Don’t harm SA’s people when targeting their government, IRR urges US (opens the original)

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    The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has written to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to urge him to take care to distinguish between the government of South Africa and its people when weighing changes in US foreign policy towards Pretoria. The IRR has shared with the State Department results of its race relations polling report, IRR Polling 2026: Race and Race Relations in South Africa, which highlights the variance between the political opinions of South Africans and the sentiments of the gov

  2. Article · Aug 27, 2026 · Makone Maja | Aug 27, 2026

    Accountability, service delivery and secure property rights the core issues in IRR’s appeal to Human Rights Commission (opens the original)

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    Accountability, efficient service delivery and secure property rights for all South Africans are the principles on which the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has approached the South Africa Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) to declare title deed and housing delivery backlogs human rights violations. In its letter to the SAHRC, the IRR argues that the rights being violated include the right to access to housing as well as the right to dignity. The Institute submits that the government’s constituti

  3. Article · Aug 26, 2026 · Makone Maja | Aug 26, 2026

    IRR to ask SAHRC to declare SA’s housing, title deeds backlogs human rights violations (opens the original)

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    The scale of South Africa’s title deeds backlog and the slowing of government-subsidised housing provision has prompted the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) to seek the intervention of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) in declaring these failures human rights violations. The Commission has made a similar declaration within the ambit of housing-related delays in the case, for example, of the delayed delivery of Reconstruction and Development Programme houses to beneficiaries in N

  4. Article · Aug 21, 2026 · Makone Maja | Aug 21, 2026

    IRR shows government title-deed backlog fails women (opens the original)

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    The government’s own figures confirm that the chronic backlog in the issuing of title deeds, now running to hundreds of thousands, disproportionately disadvantages women. This is the topic of the latest edition of Free Facts, published by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR). Property rights are women’s rights shows the scale of the government’s failure to clear the backlog of title deeds, including a staggering more than 30,000 dating to the apartheid era, and the impact this has on the proper

  5. Article · Aug 20, 2026 · Makone Maja | Aug 20, 2026

    Better opportunities abroad spur SA emigration – IRR (opens the original)

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    Better employment and career opportunities abroad is the most prominent reason why South Africans emigrate. This emerges from data published by the Institute of Race Relations in the latest edition of Free Facts, titled “South Africans are leaving the country”. More than a million South Africans have left the country since 1990. While South Africa boasts the largest share of millionaires in Africa, with about 34% or 41,100 high-net worth individuals in this category, reports indicate that in the

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