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Martin van Staden

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Martin van Staden

Martin van Staden sits on the executive committee and rule of law board of advisers of the Free Market Foundation.

Vapes represent a significant harm reduction tool that can see tobacco smoking rates plummet in the future, and flavours play an essential role in this equation.

Stop weaponising the youth in a paternalistic anti-vaping crusade

Adults must make free choices about their lives and parents and communities are responsible for providing guidance and supervision for

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Mafora’s ‘legal fictions’ nullify constitutional supremacy

In systems of constitutional supremacy, constitutions may introduce legal fictions, but legal fictions may not be introduced into constitutions, like the Expropriation Act does

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Wandile Sihlobo is too bullish on the Expropriation Act

If the ANC is unwilling to respect the formal safeguards of the Constitution, why would it respect the supposed formal safeguards of the Act?

Influence: Several political parties have voiced concern about overreach and lack of accountability in the judiciary. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G

The Expropriation Act is necessarily unconstitutional

Expropriation law is not a tool of punishment or reparation, it is a tool of social improvement that can only be used under exceptional circumstances

When individuality kills

Liberal individualists do not insist on individuality under all circumstances

Generation: South Africans have had to work through rolling blackouts, particularly this year. (Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

OPINION| Ramaphosa’s welcome electricity reforms short on liberalisation

The president’s plans to ensure a reliable supply of energy are welcome but do not go far enough

Disagreement about economic policy has seen the communist party put distance between it and the ANC. (File photo/MG)

OPINION| ANC’s socialist thinking is crushing South Africa’s future

The Cold War ended more than three decades ago. That period of history showed that socialism, at a country scale, is unsustainable