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The EFF pillars are built to crumble
Since 2013, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) under wannabe despot Julius Malema has had seven so-called non-negotiable pillars. At their core, these pillars are stereotypical, rote policies of an ill-thought national socialist state. In practice, they will be disastrous for this country.
The Rich! – the visionaries that shape society
Brendan Benfield | Contributing Writer | Free Market Foundation | Visiting Fellow | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Co-Founder | Prime Meridian Direct...
Serfdom awaits if we do not allow poor South Africans to...
South Africans have been slowly marching towards serfdom, and unless something drastic changes, this march will continue. With this year’s budget speech on the horizon, in an election year, the country and the world will get a glimpse as to how bad things could be in the short to medium term.
BusinessBrief February/March 2024 edition is now available!
Read our exclusive cover story titled The Rich! - the visionaries that shape society by Brendan Benfield, Contributing Writer Free Market Foundation, Visiting Fellow Massachusetts...
Producers are far less harmful than meddling politicians
Life is an endless series of problems, all of them offering competing, imperfect solutions. But not all solutions are actually solutions; some are mistakes. I know of no system or individual that hasn’t made mistakes. The usual wisdom passed on in this matter is that one should learn from mistakes - that the intelligent learn from their errors and correct them.
The entrepreneurial vision for robust, consumer-driven learning
Eustace Davie | Director | Free Market Foundation | mail me |
It is not simply what education teaches us directly, but how well it...
Privatisation is necessary to tackle public sector corruption
Nicholas Woode-Smith | Contributing Author | Free Market Foundation | mail me|
Parastatals, state-owned enterprises, and government interference in the economy all contribute to the...
Nemo plus iuris – the universal law statists don’t want you...
Martin van Staden | Head | Policy | Free Market Foundation | mail me |
No matter what legal tradition you grew up with or which you...
Repeal the unconstitutional causes of mass youth unemployment!
Removing the causes of mass youth unemployment in South Africa would have multiple positive consequences for job seekers. If small businesses and households, “the natural employers of young and untrained workers in an open labour market”, were free of the burden of the minimum wage and other unnecessary regulatory burdens that have been imposed on them, they could make an unprecedent contribution to the economy.
Eskom “load-limiting” is an attack on individual freedom
Eskom cannot be trusted with load-limiting, as the same kind of centralisation is what caused the energy crisis in the first place. We will publish a research paper on privatisation later this year, that will set out how best to go about the privatisation of Eskom. This comes as the embattled state-owned enterprise seems to be fumbling from one bad idea to the next as it tries to stabilise power supply.
