Martin van Staden

The following is an edited address I delivered at the AfriForum conference, ‘A critical look at the South African government’s race obsession,’ in Centurion, on

Bell Pottinger is back. For at least a few months now, not one social media thread about the Democratic Alliance (DA) or another party in

In 2020, Buddy Wells, a musician and MMT-enthusiast, wrote an article that, in broad terms, argues that South Africa’s pursuit of ‘neoliberal’ free-market reforms is

A coalition between the African National Congress (ANC) and one or two Multi-Party Charter (MPC) parties after 29 May would be the kiss of death

Superficially, society seems to have taken the historical lesson offered by the Holocaust to heart: being ordered to engage in injustice – mass extermination, in

Today marks the end of the Free Market Foundation (FMF)’s south coast roadshow, from Port Elizabeth to Cape Town, and the launch of the FMF’s

The one subject in which I differ wildly from most of those who find value in my work is immigration. I favour a significantly less

There is no such thing as ‘universal franchise’. It does not and has never existed. All franchise – everywhere and always – is qualified. The

As with many things, Cape independence divides liberal opinion. As someone who is sympathetic to, but not yet a supporter of, the secession of the

Recently, over lunch, a practising advocate revealed to me that there is a principle in our criminal law (and that of many other jurisdictions): there