Writing the next chapter of the FMF’s history

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 

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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

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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

Do the poor not need private property rights?

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In a recent column about the future of the Free Market Foundation, Tim Cohen makes an interesting observation: ‘You have to actually own some property

When it’s Russia in 1917

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In rhetoric reminiscent of the Russian Revolution, the South Africa Communist Party headed its Red October Campaign ‘Land, Food and Work’. And in rhetoric that