About us

IRR Legal’s practical mission is to transform South Africa from being the open democracy with the world’s worst unemployment rate into a republic that works. The key constraint to opportunity for unemployed people is ultimately state failure. Our mission is to right those wrongs.

IRR Legal’s foundational insight is that the rainbow republic’s Constitution is the ultimate blueprint for growth. The Constitution’s pro-growth provisions have been overlooked, ignored, or shockingly misunderstood by too many. By vindicating the pro-growth at court, IRR Legal serves its mission.

IRR Legal is a scion of the Institute of Race Relations, the oldest classical liberal think-tank in Africa. In 2021 state actors sought to deprive South African voters of their Constitutional right to free, fair, and regular elections under “lockdown”. Gabriel Crouse led the IRR to litigate this matter, the IRR’s first appearance in court in over 90 years. IRR Legal was then formed separately to deliver in the IRR’s promises to uphold property rights, privacy rights, and non-racialism through court action.