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It's a complicated thing that's quite difficult to understand, but I'll try to explain it.

I, I was fortunate for a number of years to work for the Institute of Race Relations, which was perhaps the most famous and storied of South Africa's think tanks, and it was a classically liberal institution.

So not, not liberal in the Western sense of, of, of, you know, having, having a, I don't know, a bone in your nose and screeching about the weather.

But, um, conservative in the broader Western sense, and they had a very proud history.

And, um, I was a youngster there, and I noticed a thing.

It was very Anglo-American, the Institute of Race Relations.

That had been its kind of, its kind of ethos and culture and background, and, you know, those guys have been so important in changing the country, Anglo-American and the Oppenheimer family, that it was a very good thing to be.

But it had very much that, and there was one contradiction in it, that, that dotted around it and its history were some leading thinkers of the Black Consciousness Movement.

My name is Offenta Davie from the Centre for Risk Analysis.

I'm a research associate at the CRA, and today I'm joined by Terence Corrigan from the Institute of Race Relations.

Terrence, how are you?

Uh, good.

university a few years ago.

I joined the Institute of Race Relations a few years ago.

And then after, I think, two years, two and a half years in the campaigns team slash department, moved to the Center for Risk Analysis, which is, of course, a unit of the IRR, the CRA having been established in 2010.

The more, I guess, corporate facing side of the Institute, very much on the data collating and interpretation side but then also presenting that to businesses that are clients of the CRA we present reports analysis briefings for them to make sense of the risks in the country but also then to try and navigate the opportunities just maybe for I guess interest sake so I mentioned earlier the study of philosophy But I've also over the years been very interested in things like trade policy, healthcare policy, and on the trade front, how a country like South Africa that always talks a big game about industrialization and localization and creating jobs and growth.

Now, there's so much in this monograph, it'll be difficult to go through all of it, and we're not going to have time to go through all of it.

But it is interesting in that it does mention us at the Institute of Race Relations a number of times.

One of these times it mentions our former CEO, Franz Kronier, and our current CEO, John Endres.

And I'm just going to quote a little bit from it.