Martin van Staden
http://www.martinvanstaden.com
Martin van Staden is the Head of Policy at the Free Market Foundation and former Deputy Head of Policy Research at the Institute of Race Relations (IRR). Martin also serves as the Editor of the IRR’s History Project and its Race Law Project, and is an advisor to the Free Speech Union SA. He is pursuing a doctorate in law at the University of Pretoria. For more information visit www.martinvanstaden.com.
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Afrikaners already “apologised for Apartheid” (and then some) but no more
The refrain is well-known by now: three decades into our democracy, Afrikaners have still not apologised for Apartheid. How is reconciliation possible under such circumstances?
DA’s amendments to PIE a good start, but here’s what’s really needed
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has taken up the fight against the misnamed Prevention of Illegal Evictions from and Illegal Occupation of Land Act (PIE), primarily
Did you know land reform is possible without confiscation or retribution?
South Africa’s post-1994 democratisation enshrined protected property rights in the Constitution – including the crucial right to compensation upon expropriation – which heralded a break
No, the Nazis did not “protect” private property, for one simple reason
The modern left gets much joy from construing anything to the right of Karl Marx as “fascist” or “Nazi,” but get upset when, inevitably, it
Yes, your favourite public park should be privatised
Few things have gripped the social imagination so firmly as the notion that “public = government = good” and “private = insular = bad.” This
Better pay to get better politicians? “No”
On 12 July, the Mayor of uMngeni, the Democratic Alliance (DA)’s Chris Pappas, took to Facebook to argue that given how “public service leadership is
We can only have one: EWC or constitutionalism
The following is an edited address I delivered at the Residential Investment & Development (Reside) Summit on 9 July. Early in May, Dean Macpherson, the
Reject the “we only had two weeks to negotiate a GNU” meme
It is still early days in South Africa’s era of coalition politics, with the risk, and the scale, of (unintentional) misinformation and (deliberate) disinformation about
When the Constitution and democracy fail
Constitutions are not sacred texts: they are tools to recognise and entrench liberty, limit state power, and ensure basic justice. But a constitution can fail
“But what’s the alternative to BEE?”
The Free Market Foundation and Solidarity Research Institute last week launched perhaps the first quantification of the cost of so-called broad-based black economic empowerment (BEE)