Tag: Ayanda Sakhile Zulu

Through its Rule of Law Project, the Free Market Foundation (FMF) participated as an amicus curiae (friend of the court). The constitutional challenge to the Expropriation Act ran from 3 to 7 August in the Western Cape High Court. AfriForum, IRR Legal and the Vaderland Stigting principally brought the substantive challenge. Meanwhile, the DA made a primarily procedural case. The FMF appeared alongside other civil society organisations participating in the proceedings.

National Treasury's draft proposal for a 20% national tax on the gross gambling revenue of all forms of online gambling, including online sports betting, which is legal, must be called what it is: a revenue grab. This proposal violates constitutionalism, undermines democratic practice and punishes enterprise. All of this is dressed up as a measure to reduce social harm. It is, in effect, a revenue-driven gambling tax.

In a video clip that has gone viral on social media, a South African TikToker by the name of "Voice of RSA" (the Voice hereafter) aims at what he calls the dominance of "trickle-down economics". The TikToker argues that economic growth during the presidencies of Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki was essentially jobless

The European Union (EU) is often overlooked in global power analyses that favour hard power, which finds expression in areas such as military strength, intelligence capabilities, or ideological exports.