NSFAS asks whether an applicant is poor enough to receive the money. It does not seriously ask whether spending the money in the proposed way is likely to make that applicant less poor.
Prof Richard J Grant was featured in Newsday on the Economic Freedom of the World Report.
South Africa ranks 87th out of 165 countries and territories in the Economic Freedom of the World: 2026 Annual Report (EFW), released today by the FMF in conjunction with Canada’s Fraser Institute.
South Africa does not need more state-led job-creation programmes that have repeatedly failed to reduce the headline figures. Instead, it requires an environment in which ordinary people work.
