
Chris Hattingh
Chris Hattingh is Executive Director at the Centre for Risk Analysis. He is a passionate advocate for free markets and free minds. He holds an MPhil degree from Stellenbosch University and is a member of the advisory council of the Initiative for African Trade and Prosperity, as well as a Senior Fellow at African Liberty.
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SA’s once-in-a-century opportunity
- By Chris Hattingh
- . May 20, 2025
For a country as reliant on trade and investment from the US and European countries as South Africa, the government’s focus on ideology and past

SA’s Goldilocks moment?
- By Chris Hattingh
- . Apr 25, 2025
While stating the global economy is at a “critical juncture,” in its latest World Economic Outlook the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has slashed its global

A view from Washington, DC
- By Chris Hattingh
- . Mar 27, 2025
While walking from one briefing to the next in Washington, DC, last week, I received a notification from South Africa’s favourite app. EskomSePush told me

AGOA, going, gone
- By Chris Hattingh
- . Feb 20, 2025
In a 13 February executive order (EO), ‘Reciprocal Trade and Tariffs’,US president Donald Trump puts forth a wide-ranging review and proposed change to how the

South Africa’s trade growth opportunity
- By Chris Hattingh
- . Jan 23, 2025
With load-shedding seemingly a thing of the very recent past (load-limiting remains in place, and load-shedding could return when Eskom takes more of the coal

The Transnet imperative
- By Chris Hattingh
- . Nov 28, 2024
Of all the vertically and horizontally integrated freight and ports companies that have existed in the world, Transnet is the last remaining of its kind.

SA not (yet) playing its G20 hand well
- By Chris Hattingh
- . Oct 31, 2024
When South Africa assumes the presidency of the G20 on 1 December, it gains a position that will afford the country, and the Government of

‘Muscular’ and ‘Constructive’ liberalism
- By Chris Hattingh
- . Oct 18, 2024
Free Market Foundation Head of Policy Martin van Staden writes recently that, “one hopes that the muscular liberals will gain the advantage in this particular

The GNU at 100
- By Chris Hattingh
- . Oct 3, 2024
Taking the date on which President Cyril Ramaphosa announced his latest cabinet – 30 June 2024 – 8 October marks 100 days of the Government

Don’t allow it to be just a sugar high
- By Chris Hattingh
- . Sep 6, 2024
On 31 August Springboks (and a few All Blacks) fans took newly cleaned PRASA trains from Park Station to Ellis Park stadium (now Emirates Airline