Martin van Staden

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

Few things have gripped the social imagination so firmly as the notion that “public = government = good” and “private = insular = bad.” This

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

The following is an edited address I delivered at the Residential Investment & Development (Reside) Summit on 9 July. Early in May, Dean Macpherson, the

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

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

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)

The following are edited remarks I delivered at the launch of the joint Free Market Foundation-Solidarity Research Institute report on the cost of so-called “broad-based

“Market value is not the constitutional standard” is a common argument in the discourse around compensation for expropriated property. And it is correct. But most

One of the common criticisms “of” (a strawman of) the Index of Race Law is that most if not all of the post-1994 race laws