Martin van Staden
http://www.martinvanstaden.com
Martin van Staden is the Head of Policy at the Free Market Foundation and former Deputy Head of Policy Research at the Institute of Race Relations (IRR). Martin also serves as the Editor of the IRR’s History Project and its Race Law Project, and is an advisor to the Free Speech Union SA. He is pursuing a doctorate in law at the University of Pretoria. For more information visit www.martinvanstaden.com.
Articles By This Author
Kneejerk “pro-police” response does not serve conservatism, and certainly not liberty
The recent controversy around the killing of Renee Good in the United States by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) employees – a complex situation in
Against the moral equivalence of states
The notion that independent states are “equal” is a new phenomenon in geopolitics that the West, in a unique moment of naïve optimism for the future and reckless ignorance of reality, introduced
Is “accountability” worth dying for in a broken system?
On 16 December, “Reconciliation Day”, popular DJ and podcaster Warrick Stock, known as DJ Warras, was gunned down in broad daylight in Johannesburg’s CBD. Warras joins an increasing list
Boshoff should reconsider his assurances on EWC
Theo Boshoff, CEO of Agbiz, has once again sought to calm nerves in the agricultural sector amid ongoing property policy turbulence, especially the fallout from
Why race law cannot be justified by mere intention – particularly in South Africa
In all my years of working in public advocacy, my most well-known and (thus far) consequential initiative has been spearheading the Institute of Race Relations’
Simple solutions to violent crime that the political elite has no interest in
After long and unjustified delays, the South African crime statistics for quarters 1 and 2 of financial year 2025/26 were finally published last week. Across
G20 “Declaration”, EWC, race law: gaslighting is the SA government’s modus operandi
Just like “nil” is supposedly a form of “compensation”, and “race conscious” laws are apparently not “racial”, we were told that the Group of 20
Bureaucrats and busybodies: COP11’s “experts” SA can do without
This week the richest country on Earth is hosting the biennial banquet-ball of bankers, bureaucrats, and busybodies. The Eleventh Session of the Conference of the
Questioning Hoffman’s broadside against SA’s federal Constitution
South Africa is, formally, a federal state, which like many of Africa’s federations lacks federalist substance. Federalism – crucial for limited and accountable government –
EH Brookes’s underrated liberalism: Quotes from “Power, Law, Right, and Love”
Edgar Harry Brookes (1897-1979) was one of the great classical liberals of the previous century. He co-founded the Institute of Race Relations in 1929 and