Martin van Staden

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.

Mike Godwin might not have intended it, but his internet adage is being used to nullify warnings that Nazi Germany should teach us to be

For many decades, South Africa has enjoyed taking rules from relatively safe countries and applying them uncritically to one of the most homicidal and criminal

In South Africa’s small “classical” liberal community, there are many differences in temperament. Some get very uncomfortable when it is time to go beyond clinical

Centre-left social democrats walk an unsound, uneasy path of pretending to favour “liberty” while also favouring redistributionary and intensely regulatory initiatives on behalf of the

If Democratic Alliance (DA) ministers begin implementing and enforcing the very policies they campaigned against, it would not be an indication of a healthy coalition

In his famous lecture, “Two concepts of liberty”, Isaiah Berlin introduced the now trite distinction between so-called “positive” and “negative” freedom. This distinction remains applicable

Non-racialism is a key liberal implication, but so is freedom of association and private property. There is no contradiction between these principles, even when the