

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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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

Where to for Venezuela?
- By Chris Hattingh
- . Aug 8, 2024
An economic crisis that began under Hugo Chávez has accelerated under Nicolás Maduro. From 2013 to 2021, 7 million Venezuelans (about a quarter of the

South Africa’s economic freedoms whittled away
- By Chris Hattingh
- . Sep 20, 2023
Of the 165 jurisdictions ranked in the Fraser Institute’s 2023 Economic Freedom of the World Report (EFW), South Africa occupies the 94th position (this report

Risky business
- By Chris Hattingh
- . Aug 13, 2023
Noble intentions can only carry one so far. Noble intentions in government policy, for example, might centre on the alleviation of poverty, or increasing a

Cadre deployment will remain closely guarded
- By Chris Hattingh
- . Nov 3, 2022
Cabinet recently adopted the ‘National Framework for Professionalisation of the Public Sector’, which aims at elevating merit as the guiding principle for recruitment into the