Reclaiming freedom – a reply to Vegter and Van Staden
When we strip our conception of freedom from the community and the pursuit of the common good, we lose it. I recently published a piece
Will the ANC still rule in 2025?
Will the ANC still be the government of South Africa in 2025 – a year after the 2024 election and 31 years after coming to
Down with credentialism
You’d be hard pushed to find anyone in the developed world today, no matter how libertarian or how entranced by the polemics of Ivan Illich (Deschooling Society,
A deceptively avuncular affair: the last of the expropriation hearings …
The final public hearings on the Expropriation (without compensation) Bill (EWC Bill) concluded on an average winter evening in central Cape Town. There were five
Denationalise SA’s unemployed to free them from chains of slavery
South Africa’s unemployed walk around in invisible chains. According to Stats SA’s 2023 Q1 figures, of the 10 million young people aged between 15 and
Half-wit sheriff resuscitates certificates of need for doctors
Certificates of need are back on the table for the healthcare sector, though they are, to use a technical term, flapdoodle. About a year ago,
‘Who decides?’ A defence of liberal individualism
Much of political philosophy can be traced back, in some form or another, to this simple question: ‘who decides?’ This is the question that Dr
What are the alternatives to ruin by the NHI?
Minister of Health Dr Joe Phaahla has described the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill as ‘one of the most revolutionary pieces of legislation… since the
NHI train smash designed to further socialist revolution
In his speech before Parliament passed the National Health Insurance Bill, health minister Joe Phaahla revealed a lot more than just an idealistic healthcare scheme.
Maternal healthcare improves, but more can be done
Over the past ten years, South Africa’s institutional maternal mortality ratio (IMMR) has declined. Maternal mortality is an important issue that requires our attention. Defined