Martin van Staden

To Pierre de Vos and other transformationists like Karl Klare and Dennis Davis, the world is government’s oyster, and the state may grab words appearing

Pierre de Vos, a well-known legal commentator, warns in Daily Maverick that, “Constitutional nuances [are] lost in alarmist, misleading debate around the Expropriation Act.” In

A chorus of voices from the mainstream media, certain business groups, the ANC-controlled GNU, and even the DA, have told the public, “Relax – everything

The nature and history of the African National Congress (ANC) cannot be discounted when reading the text of the new Expropriation Act. The rule of

“An enemy without a name is impossible to defeat on the battleground of ideas,” writes Andrew Doyle in his The New Puritans (2023). Those who

Modern-day discussions about liberty rarely conclude without associating it with democracy, nor do discussions about democracy conclude without associating it with liberty. With this textbook

Last Wednesday, Stellenbosch University bestowed an honorary commerce doctorate on Professor Deirdre McCloskey, one of the most important classical liberal thinkers of our time. What

Free expression is an incredibly important part of the edifice of liberty. Offensive or repugnant expression must be unambiguously tolerated. But “free speech absolutism” is

In the age of so-called “cancel culture,” it takes two to tango: the cancel mob, and those who tolerate and appease them. We might be

The instances of historical societies and civilisation crumbling under the weight of hyperinflation are numerous – as are modern examples. South Africa has thus far