

Nicholas Woode-Smith
http://nicholaswoodesmith.com/
Nicholas Woode-Smith is an economic historian, political analyst and author. He is a senior associate of the Free Market Foundation and writes in his personal capacity.
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Scrap BEE
- By Nicholas Woode-Smith
- . Mar 22, 2025
Don’t be so quick to dismiss Elon Musk’s concerns about introducing Starlink to South Africa due to Black Economic Empowerment (BEE). While Musk is being

The proposed 2025 budget is an insulting failure
- By Nicholas Woode-Smith
- . Mar 15, 2025
South Africa’s delayed 2025 Budget is no win for ordinary South Africans. And despite what some politicians may argue, it isn’t even a worthy “compromise.”

From Munich to October 7th: why Israel must exist
- By Nicholas Woode-Smith
- . Mar 7, 2025
On the 5th of September 1972, Palestinian terrorist group Black September (named after the Jordanian Civil War, where the Palestinian Liberation Organisation attempted to overthrow

Sovereignty goes two ways
- By Nicholas Woode-Smith
- . Mar 5, 2025
National sovereignty is a two-way street, as President Cyril Ramaphosa and many public officials don’t seem to understand in their arrogant and bullish defence against

Scrap K53
- By Nicholas Woode-Smith
- . Feb 26, 2025
South Africa’s abhorrent traffic safety record, and the worldwide reputation of our drivers as incompetent and dangerous, should be a clear indication that something is

Land ownership is not clear-cut in SA
- By Nicholas Woode-Smith
- . Feb 20, 2025
Racially motivated land reform is one of the most nonsensical, irrational and misunderstood obsessions among the politically minded in South Africa. Alongside Black Economic Empowerment

Sin Tax on gambling won’t work
- By Nicholas Woode-Smith
- . Feb 1, 2025
We can’t tax our society into behaving better, no matter how much we’d like to think we can. Behaviour-adjusting taxes like sin tax on alcohol

Inciting violence against South Africa’s Jews
- By Nicholas Woode-Smith
- . Dec 23, 2024
South Africa is no stranger to antisemitism. In the 1930s, DF Malan’s Nazi-inspired National Party blocked the immigration of Jewish peoples, threatened violence against Jewish

SA Government is Hypocritical Over Iran and Israel
- By Nicholas Woode-Smith
- . Nov 9, 2024
The South African government and the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) have demonstrated a profound hypocrisy in their reaction to Israel’s surgical strike

Sovereign wealth fund is a foolish idea
- By Nicholas Woode-Smith
- . Oct 12, 2024
The South African Communist Party (SACP) has reiterated its desire for South Africa to establish a sovereign wealth fund, citing the country’s wealth of natural