Martin van Staden

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

Privacy is one of the fundamental aspects of liberty that constitutionalism has long recognised and protected. In response, the state and state-adjacent advocates have run

The recent controversies over “racism” at Pretoria High School for Girls and Chidimma Adetshina’s participation in Miss South Africa reveal an illness in South African

The notion that murderers have forfeited their right to life through their own actions is not unreasonable, but as with most big social issues, ‘who

Twelve 12th grade pupils at Pretoria High School for Girls (PHSG) recently went through a public ordeal involving government officials, political parties, and the press

Over time, political community has attempted to contrive various ways to avert tyranny. These have met with varying levels of success. Perhaps the most recent