Martin van Staden

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

The first notable initiative in government by the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) – South Africa’s second oldest existing federalist institution – has been to centralise

Almost three decades ago, the erstwhile Democratic Party (DP) campaigned on a motto of “Freedom, Free Enterprise, Federalism.” Today – when those three things are

The institution of “regulation” is so ingrained that many accept its existence uncritically, premised on the notion that it “protects” society from the excesses of

The following is an edited press statement I delivered on 29 October at the launch of the Free Market Foundation’s “Liberty First: Size of Government”

The first 100 days of the Government of National Unity (GNU) have been good for sentiment, but on the whole fruitless for fundamental policy reform.