IRR – Bursary Application

Bursary Application

The IRR is proud to have been funding the education of poor South Africans, regardless of race, since 1935. Since 1980 we have provided more than R221 million in bursary funding and produced over 3 600 medical, business, management, scientific, education, and engineering graduates. This has been a major contribution to economic empowerment in South Africa – since long before the idea became popular.

Bursary application closed for 2015

We are closed for 2015 bursary application. We re-open on 1st July 2015 for 2016 bursaries.

Achievements of the Bursary Programme

The national bursary programme of the Institute dates back to 1935. Since then our students, among them Mr. Nelson Mandela, who won a bursary worth £120 in the late 1940s, have served the country in almost every field of endeavour.

Alumni

If you have received a bursary from the South African Institute of Race Relations, please fill in your details below.

Become a donor

The IRR administers bursary funds for many of South Africa’s largest corporations.

Ideas are the most powerful influence on any society. Apartheid policy was, for example, only abandoned after its dominant idea of racial separateness was undermined.  In the very same way South African policy makers need new ideas with which to promote the investment and economic activity that will draw poor people into jobs and build a more prosperous South Africa.

The ideas we promote are the pillars of freedom in all successful societies. They include:
• That the State should be small but effective in carrying out its core functions
• That people should be treated as individuals and not as members of groups
• That property rights should be protected so that the poor can accumulate wealth and assets
• That strong independent institutions in the media, judiciary, and civil society should be empowered to hold powerful interest groups in business and government to account
• That economic freedom is as important as political freedom and that people should be empowered to stand on their own feet to work, start businesses, invest, and own property in order to improve their lives.

Urgency is paramount. Without much higher levels of investment and growth, South Africa will not defeat its triple challenges of unemployment, poverty, and inequality. Yet failure to do so could open the door to radical and populist policies that erode property rights, destroy political freedoms, and impoverish the country.

 

Source:  www.irr.org.za/