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DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE

Employment equity and decent work will support economic growth in South Africa

The Democratic Alliance, the Free Market Foundation and the Institute of Race Relations have flawed views regarding employment equity

  • Khwezi Mabasa
4 min read
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CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS

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

  • Martin van Staden
8 min read
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AGRICULTURE

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?

  • Martin van Staden
8 min read
In 2023, under president Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa ranked 94 out of 165 countries in economic freedom. This is the lowest since 1994, according to the Economic Freedom of the World Report. (Leon Sadiki/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
BELA BILL

Smaller government and increased privatisation will boost GNU economy, says think tank

The FMF Charter says the size of cabinet should be reduced and policy changes introduced to benefit the poor and create jobs

  • Aarti Bhana
5 min read
An ANC volunteer gets ready to erect posters of party president, Cyril Ramaphosa, in Johannesburg, prior to South Africa’s May 29 elections. (Delwyn Verasamy, Mail & Guardian)
ANC MINORITY GOVERNMENT

South Africa needs a ‘no-alition’ confidence-and-supply arrangement for government stability

The loss of an outright majority for the ANC should not be considered a panacea which promises to alleviate all our political and economic woes

  • Morné Malan
5 min read
With labour seemingly sidelined in talks affecting the economy’s future, big business isn’t as hard done by as some believe. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
ANC

Some more equal than others in South Africa’s economic tug of war

With labour seemingly sidelined in talks affecting the economy’s future, big business isn’t as hard done by as some believe

  • Sarah Smit
6 min read
Umbrage: Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has taken the battle with Sakeliga to the constitutional court
AFRIBUSINESS

Sakeliga has a ‘secret agenda’

But Afriforum’s business wing says the finance minister is playing the race card

  • Sarah Smit
4 min read
Earlier on Wednesday, Eskom chief financial officer Calib Cassim explained that the key driver behind the tariff increases is that the power utility can no longer depend on continued financial support from the government.
ANDRE DE RUYTER

Eskom makes proposals to protect the poor from power price hikes

On Tuesday energy regulator Nersa announced that it would allow the ailing power utility to recover an additional R10-billion through tariffs.

  • Sarah Smit
2 min read
Former Eskom chief executive, André de Ruyter. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
ANDRE DE RUYTER
Video

Eskom electricity hikes won’t shock SA’s battered economy — De Ruyter

During a podcast discussion, the ailing power utility’s chief executive said there would be efforts to avoid further hurting distressed businesses

  • Sarah Smit
3 min read
As a business SAA stands a good chance to ‘return to its former glory’
CARIN SMITH

R100 000 bet on SAA’s future

The national airways chief executive has taken up a challenge proposed by the Free Market Foundation

  • Carin Smith
2 min read
Golden Arrow bus depot in Philippi
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE

Liberalism isn’t married to capitalism

There are as many differences in liberalism as there are in any other philosophical approach

  • Eusebius McKaiser
8 min read
Black . . . and blue: The liberal myth of the individual was taken to the extreme by Margaret Thatcher
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE

Black liberalism is an apology for capitalism 

Despite McKaiser’s best attempts, he can’t shrug off the core elements of exploitative capitalism

  • Mazibuko K Jara
9 min read
The airline’s biggest costs were fuel and salaries
BOTSWANA DEMOCRATIC PARTY

No end to SAA’s nightmares

Its problems are many and its debt overwhelming.So the question remains: Can the airline be saved?

  • Lynley Donnelly
6 min read
This week we’ll speak to our politics team on the future of the Cosatu and more.
BARGAINING COUNCILS

Bargaining extension fought on constitutional grounds

The Free Market Foundation has filed a case with the Gauteng North High Court.

  • Teagne Payne
4 min read
FREE MARKET FOUNDATION

SA slips down economic-freedom ranking

It has taken less than a decade for SA to slide 40 places in the Economic Freedom of the World rankings, the Free Market Foundation said on Monday.

  • Staff Reporter
3 min read
FREE MARKET FOUNDATION

No sweet deal

The sugar price is the highest it’s been for 28 years and it could continue to rise, writes Lynley Donnelly

  • Lynley Donnelly
6 min read
ECONOMY

SA slips down economic freedom rankings

South Africa’s economic freedom ranking has dropped five places in the past year to 54 out of 141 countries, according to a new report.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
ESKOM

Foundation takes aim at ‘monolithic’ Eskom

The energy market should be privatised and deregulated for the electricity crisis in SA to be solved, the Free Market Foundation suggests.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY

SA 60th in economic-freedom rankings

South Africa has been placed 60th in the latest international economic-freedom rankings, down six places on last year and 24 since 2004, the Free Market Foundation of Southern…

  • Staff Reporter
3 min read