South African Institute of Race Relations
The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) is a research and policy organisation in South Africa. The IRR was founded in 1929 to improve and report upon race relations in South Africa between the politically dominant white group and the black, coloured, and Indian populations, making the Institute "one of the oldest liberal institutions in the country".The Institute investigates socioeconomic conditions in South Africa, and aims to address issues such as poverty and inequality, and to promote economic growth through promoting a system of limited government, a market economy, private enterprise, freedom of speech, individual liberty, property rights, and the rule of law. The IRR tracks trends in every area of South Africa's development, ranging from business and the economy to crime, living conditions, and politics.
Throughout most of its history of opposing segregation and Apartheid, it has been regarded as liberal. In 1958, Gwendolen M. Carter wrote that "the Institute keeps close touch with non-European groups and over a long period of time has constituted itself as a spokesman for their interests." In more recent years the IRR and its work has also been variously labelled as right-wing (for instance by the academic Roger Southall and former Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba), conservative (in a ''New Frame'' editorial and by NEHAWU Western Cape secretary Luthando Nogcinisa), and reactionary (by former NUMSA spokesperson Irvin Jim), although it describes itself as adhering to classical liberalism.
During the periods of segregation and Apartheid, the IRR mostly drew its support from urbanites, tending to be from United Party-dominated parliamentary wards, who had a more "liberal" view on South Africa's race question.
Historian JP Brits argues that the IRR and its spiritual predecessor, the Joint Councils of Europeans and Africans, were the "most important extra-parliamentary organisations” to take an interest in the welfare of black South Africans. Both the Joint Councils and the IRR supported and had "native representatives" (whites chosen to represent blacks in Parliament) as their members and functionaries.
The IRR, alongside the Liberal Party, the Progressive Party, the Black Sash, the Civil Rights League, and the National Union of South African Students, according to Timothy Hughes, formed "the core of the 'liberal establishment'" in South Africa from the 1950s. In 1996, the academic Hugh Corder, and later critic, described the IRR as an important “national asset.” Provided by Wikipedia
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1Johannesburg, Microfile, [19--?]75 microfilm reels. negative. 35 mm.“...South African Institute of Race Relations...”
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2by Randall, Peter
Published 1967[Johannesburg], South African Institute of Race Relations, 1967.[ii], 19 p., 2 leaves of plates. illus. 22 cm.“...South African Institute of Race Relations...”
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4Johannesburg, South Africa, Microfile [19--?]4 microfilm reels. Negative. 35 mm.“...South African Institute of Race Relations...”
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5Johannesburg, Microfile, [19--?]7 microfilm reels. 35 mm.“...South African Institute of Race Relations...”
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Published 1943Johannesburg : S.A. Institute of Race Relations, 1943.[2], 60, [1] p. ; 19 cm.“...South African Institute of Race Relations...”
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7by Jones, J. D. Rheinallt (John David Rheinallt), 1884-1953
Published 1970[Johannesburg] : South African Institute of Race Relations, [197-?]31 microfiches.“...South African Institute of Race Relations...”
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8by Paton, AlanJohannesburg : Microfile, [19--?]3 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.“...South African Institute of Race Relations...”
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9by Brookes, Edgar Harry
Published 1953[Johannesburg?] 1953.43 p. port. 22 cm.“...South African Institute of Race Relations...”
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10by Brookes, Edgar Harry
Published 1943Johannesburg, S.A. Institute of Race Relations, 1943.1 online resource (60 p.)“...South African Institute of Race Relations...”
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11Published 1929Johannesburg, 1929?-1966]12 reels.“...South African Institute of Race Relations...”
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12Published 1969Johannesburg, Microfile, 1969.6 microfilm reels. negative. 35 mm.“...South African Institute of Race Relations. Library...”
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14Published 1984Johannesburg, South Africa : The Library, University of Witwatersrand, 1984-1991.108 microfilm reels : negative ; 16-35 mm.“...South African Institute of Race Relations...”
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15[S.l., s.n., 19--?]22 microfiches. reading negative.“...South African Institute of Race Relations...”
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16Published 1981Johannesburg : Library, University of the Witwatersrand, 1981-2 v. : ill. ; 30 cm.“...South African Institute of Race Relations...”
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17[Grahamstown, South Africa] : Rhodes University Dept. of Journalism and the South African Institute of Race Relations.v. : ill.“...South African Institute of Race Relations...”
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