Martin van Staden

Constitutions are not sacred texts: they are tools to recognise and entrench liberty, limit state power, and ensure basic justice. But a constitution can fail

The Free Market Foundation and Solidarity Research Institute last week launched perhaps the first quantification of the cost of so-called broad-based black economic empowerment (BEE)

The following are edited remarks I delivered at the launch of the joint Free Market Foundation-Solidarity Research Institute report on the cost of so-called “broad-based

“Market value is not the constitutional standard” is a common argument in the discourse around compensation for expropriated property. And it is correct. But most

One of the common criticisms “of” (a strawman of) the Index of Race Law is that most if not all of the post-1994 race laws

Yesterday, Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen formed part of a delegation that visited Donald Trump to plead South Africa’s case. Precisely what Steenhuisen’s contributions

We talk a lot about the fast media cycle in the age of information, but more concerning is the fast “knowledge” cycle: things people knew

You’re against the Patriot Act? What, you aren’t a patriot? You’re against Bantu education? What, don’t you believe members of Bantu ethnicities are entitled to

Anton Harber continues his defence of race law on the basis of the noble-hearted intentions of the selfless and pure souls who serve in South

The 2025 national budget is gearing up to be South Africa’s most contentious, possibly ever.   That budgets are now on the table of contestation is