Nicholas Woode-Smith
http://nicholaswoodesmith.com/
Nicholas Woode-Smith is an Associate at the Free Market Foundation and Western Cape coordinator of the FMF Campaign for Home Rule. He is also a Council Member of the Institute of Race Relations. He is a firm believer in human liberty and reason and supports rational policy that supports freedom and the rule of law. Woode-Smith is an economic historian, political analyst, and fiction author of the Kat Drummond Series and Warpmancer Saga, and has written widely on South African politics, economics and history.
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Parties Must Think Harder About Crime
Crime seeps into every aspect of South African society. Violent crime takes lives, sexual assault destroys them. Gangsterism imposes a brutal dictatorship on swathes of
Why South Africa Needs Federalism
By virtue of being divided into semi-autonomous provinces and municipalities, South Africa already has the foundation to be a federal republic. But the ANC’s obsession
Decentralise power, minimise problems
If we want to minimise the problems facing South African society, then we need to decentralise it and embrace a federal system. That means giving
New armed policing agencies may just add to crime problem
Cape Town’s Law Enforcement Advancement Plan (LEAP) and Gauteng’s Crime Prevention Wardens (CPWs) are not only potentially illegal, but miss the point about crime in South Africa.
The necessity of property rights
Property rights are the bedrock of modern civilisation. Without certainty that one’s property will remain one’s own and not be stolen by criminals or robber
South Africa needs less schooling, not more
Policy makers must stop acting as though increased schooling and higher education budgets are a silver bullet that will solve all South Africa’s problems. Schooling
UCT protests expose need for private universities
As soon as the higher levels of lockdown proper ended for the University of Cape Town, the campus renewed its vintage 2015 protests and shut
The ANC needs Cape independence
It may sound deeply ironic that the African National Congress (ANC), ruling party of South Africa, would benefit from the Western Cape (and possibly the
Smoking ban violates human dignity
South Africa’s lockdown has been lauded and condemned as one of the strictest and longest in the world. Possibly the most controversial aspect of this
SA needs less government, not more
The world is apparently telling President Cyril Ramaphosa to ‘do something fast to save South Africa‘. With our electricity grid failing, crime on a continual