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IRR to submit anti-race laws petition to Department of Employment and Labour | SA News

South Africans have made their voices clear, and they want race laws scrapped, says the Institute of Race Relations (IRR). 

Four months ago, the IRR launched its #WhatSACanBe movement. The What South Africa Can Be campaign operationalises many of the IRR’s evidence-based and growth-enabling policy proposals and has published numerous draft bills which the government can readily adopt to change course, and stop the damage to our economy and our society. 

One such law is the #NoMoreRaceLawsBill. This draft legislation repeals all race laws and mandatory racial classification still in use long after the 1950 Population Registration Act – the very foundation of racialism in law − was…

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