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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A defence of the High Court’s ‘foolish, dangerous judgment on load-shedding’
Andrew Kenny writes that Judge Norman Davis of the Gauteng High Court issued ‘a foolish, dangerous judgment on load-shedding’ when the latter ordered government to
Liberalism is perfectly at home in SA
In March, Yvonne Phyllis wrote a scathing attack on the classical liberal theory of private property from a clearly socialistic and racial nationalistic perspective in
It’s a fallacy to measure ‘fair share’ only by tax contribution
It is not rare today to hear calls for the wealthy to ‘pay their fair share’ in the context of taxation. But is it appropriate
Why (classical) liberalism ought to be the philosophy of the courts
Constitutionalism did not fall out of an intellectual vacuum. The fingerprints of ‘classical’ liberalism are necessarily all over it, a fact not seriously disputed by
Even judges are human
Constitutional law is not the exclusive domain of constitutional lawyers, judges, and litigants. It is of importance to the broader legal community, including scholars, and
Cancel ‘cancel culture’? Not so fast
It used to be that heretics, witches, and others who dissented from the orthodoxy of public opinion were executed. Later, they were ‘merely’ imprisoned. Today,
Cabinet bloat? Here’s what a lean cabinet could look like
The huge, ‘temporary’ 30-member cabinet President Ramaphosa announced earlier this year is larger than those of many developed countries, even discounting the 36 deputy ministers
Parliament must stop trying to use the courts to fix bad law
The South African Parliament has had a tendency to produce poorly drafted and dangerous legislation, the text of which allows unjust legal outcomes to occur.
Federalists! Embrace South Africa’s mighty municipality
For the first time since the 1990s transition, federalism is back on the lips of many South Africans. In the last year alone, a Western
The DA’s ‘separation of party and state’ in a representative democracy
In a previous article I claimed that there might be a tension between the Democratic Alliance (DA)’s principle of ‘separation of party and state’ on