Of course the Constitution is an obstacle to your radical plan: that’s the point
ANC national executive committee member Dr Mathole Motshekga (“ANC leader says SA’s Constitution ‘an obstacle to socio-economic transformation’”) joins a small chorus of critics who
The lessons from the chaos over SAA
About 18 months ago the word from the government was that the future of South African Airways (SAA), the bankrupt state-owned airline, was all solved.
Writing the next chapter of the FMF’s history
The following is my address, as Chief Executive-designate, to the Annual General Meeting of the Free Market Foundation (FMF) on 17 November. Fighters for economic
CITES neo-colonialism must end
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species faces a crisis of legitimacy. It tramples the successful conservation models of range states at the behest
Ramaphosa signals resistance to reform
A couple of weeks ago, I used my column to muse on reasons to be optimistic. I’ve done so on other platforms too. And while
Racial and sexual indoctrination at schools
Fish Hoek High School has been in the news following uproar after a “diversity workshop” that was imposed upon it by the DA-run Western Cape
The Austrian antidote to South Africa’s decline into serfdom
Keynes and sunshine-socialism have failed South Africa. It’s time for Hayek. For you and me. For the almost magical power of individuals to make markets,
Yeah, yeah, bitcoin is dead. We know
The price doldrums in which bitcoin finds itself, and the collapse of the FTX exchange, have made it fashionable, once again, to declare crypto, or
DA/ANC coalition? Hell no. Confidence and supply? Maybe
There is great excitement about the possibility of a coalition of ‘wild dog’ parties excluding the African National Congress (ANC) and Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
Bitcoin: Manias, Panics, and Crashes
Manias, panics, and near crashes have plagued the cryptocurrency market. After the collapse last week of FTX, other exchanges which buy and sell digital assets