23 January 2019 - Contrary to more naïve opinion, the South African government is quite close to the point where it could begin seizing property without compensation.
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.
21 January 2019 - Even good ideas, such as opening up the economy to greater participation by small, micro, and medium enterprises (SMMEs), are not only half-baked but motivated mainly by a desire to break up monopolies. Nowhere is there a hint of economic liberalisation. Instead, the state will increase both its size and its power.
20 January 2019 - Samuel Gregg at the Acton Institute warns however that “until fiscal conservatives start grounding the full canopy of activities and institutions associated with economic freedom in robust accounts of human fulfillment, they will struggle to make headway against the widespread skepticism concerning the morality of free markets.”
19 January 2019 - Despite the best efforts of some, South Africa’s rainbowism has not failed. It may seem at times that the ‘Rainbow Nation’ is being held together with chewing gum and string, but ordinary South Africans are happy to work, play, and simply exist together.
18 January 2019 - All those who think a vote for CR will help him succeed at constructive reform should remember that they will be voting, not for him – nor even for the ANC – but rather for the NDR Alliance. This Alliance has quietly taken control of policy and its implementation and is determined (as Cosatu put it some three years ago) “to deepen and advance the NDR as a direct route to socialism”.
17 January 2019 - The destruction today of the Democratic Alliance billboard listing the names of the victims of Life Esidimeni and those who fell at Marikana is disgraceful and should be condemned, Gareth van Onselen, Head of Politics and Governance at the SA Institute of Race Relations said in a statement.
17 January 2019 - But more than anything else, Zimbabwe’s salvation does not lie in the SA government for the reason that, in its expropriation without compensation policy, our government is championing at home what is in principle the very policy that still lies at the heart of Zimbabwe’s crises.
16 January 2019 - The lesson is so simple it is taught at decent nursery schools globally; don’t judge till you know what’s what.
16 January 2019 - The DA’s mealy-mouthed defence is irresponsible. The party also demonstrates political naivety in antagonizing an important constituency just before an election by presuming racism before the facts are in – something which makes the DA indistinguishable from its opposition.
16 January 2019 - Our infrastructure is collapsing, our institutions infected with some dread disease and our leadership compromised and incompetent.
16 January 2019 - While much that has changed has been positive, mining has much uneven ground to tread as it enters the final year of the decade.
15 January 2019 - The good news about South Africa’s democratic gains is credible. What is telling, however, is that president Ramaphosa neglected to mention the key thrust of that report.