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Minimum wage turns job seekers into potential criminals
Raising the minimum wage may seem like a way to help alleviate the plight of working South Africans, but all it really accomplishes is pricing more and more people out of the job market.
The destructive minimum wage legislation must be repealed
According to Statistics South Africa, the SA unemployment rate in the third Quarter (Q3) of 2023 was 41.2% (7.8 million people). In addition, youth unemployment (ages 15 to 34 years) in Q3 was 4.6 million, out of a total of 12.4 million unemployed people in the country. The total population is 61.02 million.
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...
