Martin van Staden
https://www.martinvanstaden.com
Dr Martin van Staden is the Head of Policy at the Free Market Foundation and Editor of the Race Law Project at the South African Institute of Race Relations. He earned a Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) from the University of Pretoria and is widely published and featured on popular and academic platforms. Van Staden additionally serves as a director of both the Hayek Council for a Free World and the Free Speech Union SA, and as a fellow at both the Consumer Choice Center and Initiative for African Trade and Prosperity. Visit www.martinvanstaden.com for more.
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Why AfriForum is right to reject the “white genocide” narrative
- By Martin van Staden
- . Apr 10, 2025
AfriForum has for many years been waging a lonely war against South African journalists and “fact-checkers” peddling the myth of white genocide but attributing it
A rollercoaster of vindication for the IRR’s Index of Race Law
- By Martin van Staden
- . Apr 3, 2025
The past few weeks have seen a wave of critical commentary targeting the IRR’s Index of Race Law, an initiative I have had the privilege
“Kill the Boer”: Marco Rubio, the Supreme Court of Appeal, and the rule of law
- By Martin van Staden
- . Mar 27, 2025
On 21 March, Julius Malema celebrated Human Rights Day by once again inciting the killings of (primarily white) farmers. The Supreme Court of Appeal last
Answering 13 questions about the Index of Race Law
- By Martin van Staden
- . Mar 20, 2025
The Index of Race Law was launched to little fanfare in December 2022 by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), as the only up-to-date and
Challenging Pierre de Vos’s EWC pseudo-jurisprudence (Part 4)
- By Martin van Staden
- . Mar 13, 2025
Without courts that are respected and obeyed, constitutionalism – as a limitation on state scope and power – cannot work. But this principle can be
Those accusing Solidarity, AfriForum of “treason” must face consequences
- By Martin van Staden
- . Mar 6, 2025
Democracy depends on accountability, and that depends on allowing ordinary people to vociferously criticise government and bring pressure to bear on it to change. The
Challenging Pierre de Vos’s EWC pseudo-jurisprudence (Part 3)
- By Martin van Staden
- . Feb 27, 2025
Section 25 of the Constitution is, to many legal thinkers and judges, an inkblot in the constitutional text – it is the disfavoured right. Much
Challenging Pierre de Vos’s EWC pseudo-jurisprudence (Part 2)
- By Martin van Staden
- . Feb 20, 2025
To Pierre de Vos and other transformationists like Karl Klare and Dennis Davis, the world is government’s oyster, and the state may grab words appearing
Challenging Pierre de Vos’s EWC pseudo-jurisprudence (Part 1)
- By Martin van Staden
- . Feb 13, 2025
Pierre de Vos, a well-known legal commentator, warns in Daily Maverick that, “Constitutional nuances [are] lost in alarmist, misleading debate around the Expropriation Act.” In
2+2=5? Don’t “panic” about EWC – but don’t be misled either
- By Martin van Staden
- . Feb 6, 2025
A chorus of voices from the mainstream media, certain business groups, the ANC-controlled GNU, and even the DA, have told the public, “Relax – everything