Martin van Staden

Organised business in South Africa continues to engage with the South African government as if both parties were fundamentally bona fide. The reality is that

No matter what legal tradition you grew up with or which you prefer, all legal traditions share a universal rule which the proponents of modern

I am agnostic about, but quite sympathetic towards, Cape independence. On occasion, I assist their more liberally-minded formations with matters of jurisprudence. Indeed, my primary

Liberalism advances freedom of choice in all its manifestations. Any person must be allowed to make any decision they wish, provided this does not coercively

Imagine that you find yourself endowed with the power to draw up a new constitution for South Africa – or whatever other society – but

Outsourcing responsibility to the state is usually convenient, but often results in some kind of perversity. The domain of electricity is no exception, now that

The State of Israel is not the world’s freest country and nor is it beyond reproach. But relative to its neighbours, Israel is a light

In 2024, with any luck, the Multi-Party Charter, or some other configuration of opposition parties, will take over the reins of central government, or at

South Africa is not the first place most people would think to look for examples of successful private, voluntarist initiatives that – with any luck

In the war between Russia and Ukraine, I am as pro-Ukraine as every sober-minded individual around the world today should be. This does not stop