18 July 2019 - On government’s shoulders rests the considerable responsibility of ensuring that the various elements of the broader economic and societal “ecosystem” that enables business to flourish are kept up to minimum standards.
Media
Every week we reach hundreds of thousands of people through placing arguments in the media in support of the principles we stand for. No other advocacy group in the country does as much as we do to promote support for policies that defend your right, and that of your community, to make decisions about your own life free from counter-productive government interference.
18 July 2019 - A well-thought-out and competently executed land reform programme (of which land acquisition and provision is but one element) would expand opportunities and bring real economic benefits for the people of South Africa. But this describes something very different from what the ANC has been proposing.
17 July 2019 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) today launches the second phase of its campaign to protect the savings and retirement funds of ordinary South Africans.
17 July 2019 - Where the state lacks the ability – perhaps the will? – to enforce its laws, and surrenders authority to the strongman best placed to press a claim through force, then a successful and legitimate land reform programme becomes impossible. So does much economic activity – and with it, tragically, the future of the country.
15 July 2019 - Poor black people are the harshest victims of the ANC’s push back to a Soviet future. Urbane South Africa looks away from this, just as it does the history of the people’s war.
15 July 2019 - Hopefulness can be unreliable — passive, or blindly clung to — in the face of history’s ravages and flattened remains. But, as Najjar implies, hope can also be a more active ingredient, a claim, against the odds, to be insistently present.
14 July 2019 - With easy access to other people's money to fund moribund state-owned enterprises, and largely insulated from the consequences of their actions, successive governments run by the African National Congress (ANC) have already demonstrated their insatiable appetite for "risk". As for inspiring entrepreneurship and unlocking economic potential, Mr Ramaphosa's remarks would be ludicrous if his party's track record was not so sad.
8 July 2019 - The fastest route to DA growth is precisely through appealing to classically liberal values, especially non-racialism.
8 July 2019 - A friend once told me that anybody who can afford to employ a ‘servant’ had a moral duty to do so. Wilbur Smith, who keeps a large entourage of staff, agrees. I don’t. I should much rather our economy be freed so that everybody can get a proper, useful, productive job and that the role of the ‘servant’ be relegated to the bad old past.
8 July 2019 - Anyone seeking to understand the depravity of the ANC in power need only bear in mind the depravity of its strategy to gain power.
6 July 2019 - One troubling scenario to consider is that financial collapse will emanate from the implosion of dodgy corporate debt in the US.
3 July 2019 - Our polling shows that a solid eight out of ten South Africans respect their fellow citizens and see their fates as intertwined. They reject race-baiting be it from the ‘right’ or the ‘left’. Most too reject populist faux-solutions to our economic woes. Their priorities are employment, safety and education. It is, in other words, our political class – along with many influencers and intellectuals – that is out of step with society.