Martin van Staden

In this piece, published in June, 2023 and which was one of our most-read pieces of 2023, Martin van Staden explains that if the ANC

Businesses should be celebrated for circumventing racial policy. Such a statement is bizarrely contentious today, but when the Free Market Foundation expressed similar sentiments in

Various repressive laws that explicitly or implicitly allow government to censor or manipulate free expression and discourse are already on the Statute Book in South

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