PUBLICATIONS
The Free Market Foundation issues regular press statements, makes submissions to organs of state, and publishes articles, papers, and books, on matters related to individual liberty, private property, free enterprise, and limited government.
Legislation cannot rewrite a constitutional standard that a proposed constitutional amendment was unable to change.
The FMF thanks Johann Rupert, the Reinet Foundation, and Remgro for their invaluable continued support.
The arbitrary timing-based restrictions on the right to counter-spoliation are antithetical to the rule of law.
On World No Tobacco Day, the FMF reaffirms its commitment to consumer choice, personal responsibility, and sound public policy over expanding state control.
The Free Market Foundation relaunched the Free Speech Union of South Africa at a ceremony on 27 May, at Northwards House in Johannesburg.
The average South African taxpayer must work the first 142 days of 2026 to pay their share of the total tax burden before earning a single rand for themselves and their families.
The Free Market Foundation congratulates Head of Policy Dr Martin van Staden on being conferred with the Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) degree by the University of Pretoria on 13 May.
Scrapping fees for the unemployed is a positive step, but true progress requires removing the deeper regulatory obstacles that keep millions from working.
The proposed amendments raise serious concerns about legality, delegated authority, and parliamentary oversight
What if the system itself practically manufactures corruption?
The Constitutional Court is not an external arbiter of law, but an institutional carrier of official ideology.
It should encourage them to think historically rather than ideologically.
The country’s procurement crisis is not primarily a shortage of regulations – it is a shortage of administrative capability.
Every bullet fired in a route dispute is an argument for more regulation.
The policy replaces those decisions with a fixed standard regardless.
Europe and South Africa have been connected through centuries of conflict and conquest, cooperation, trade, settlement, and investment.
How did such an overreach come to be advanced and then vigorously defended?
Safeguard the value of South Africans’ hard-earned money from state failure and overreach.
Exempt the unemployed from the cause of their unemployment: labour laws.
FMF Policy Brief Summary South Africa’s proposed Tobacco Bill poses a grave threat to constitutional governance and individual freedoms. This report exposes how excessive ministerial
FMF-Property Rights Alliance Report Summary The Property Rights Alliance’s 2025 International Property Rights Index (IPRI) ranks 126 countries on the strength of their legal and
CASE STUDY Expropriation of property without compensation: the case of South Africa and international worst practice Authored by the FMF’s Head of Policy Martin van
Beyond savings, cuts alleviate regulatory proliferation, boosting investment 1-2% and GDP.
The process to adopt the Tobacco Bill has been fatally flawed.
Joint FMF-EPICENTER report on the spillover of European policymaking.
Practical proposals to save South Africa from an impending trade disaster.
The FMF’s submission on the proposed amendments to the PIE Act.
The FMF’s submission on the proposed so-called “Fair Pay Bill”.
The FMF’s submission n the proposed Capital Flow Management Regulations.
The FMF’s submission on the proposed Amendments to the B-BBEE Codes of Good Practice.
The FMF’s submission on the draft National Online Gambling Tax discussion paper.
The FMF’s submission on the 2025 Business Licensing Bill.
The FMF’s submission on the 2023 GILAB.
Competition Commission Summary The Free Market Foundation is of the view that the draft Public Interest Guidelines for Merger Control undermines the constitutional imperative of
The NHI Bill is politically motivated, unaffordable, incapable of delivering better health outcomes, and will infringe on numerous constitutional rights.
Legislation cannot rewrite a constitutional standard that a proposed constitutional amendment was unable to change.
The FMF thanks Johann Rupert, the Reinet Foundation, and Remgro for their invaluable continued support.
The arbitrary timing-based restrictions on the right to counter-spoliation are antithetical to the rule of law.
On World No Tobacco Day, the FMF reaffirms its commitment to consumer choice, personal responsibility, and sound public policy over expanding state control.
The Free Market Foundation relaunched the Free Speech Union of South Africa at a ceremony on 27 May, at Northwards House in Johannesburg.
The average South African taxpayer must work the first 142 days of 2026 to pay their share of the total tax burden before earning a single rand for themselves and their families.
The Free Market Foundation congratulates Head of Policy Dr Martin van Staden on being conferred with the Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) degree by the University of Pretoria on 13 May.
Scrapping fees for the unemployed is a positive step, but true progress requires removing the deeper regulatory obstacles that keep millions from working.
The proposed amendments raise serious concerns about legality, delegated authority, and parliamentary oversight
What if the system itself practically manufactures corruption?
The Constitutional Court is not an external arbiter of law, but an institutional carrier of official ideology.
It should encourage them to think historically rather than ideologically.
The country’s procurement crisis is not primarily a shortage of regulations – it is a shortage of administrative capability.
Every bullet fired in a route dispute is an argument for more regulation.
The policy replaces those decisions with a fixed standard regardless.
Europe and South Africa have been connected through centuries of conflict and conquest, cooperation, trade, settlement, and investment.
How did such an overreach come to be advanced and then vigorously defended?
Safeguard the value of South Africans’ hard-earned money from state failure and overreach.
Exempt the unemployed from the cause of their unemployment: labour laws.
FMF Policy Brief Summary South Africa’s proposed Tobacco Bill poses a grave threat to constitutional governance and individual freedoms. This report exposes how excessive ministerial
FMF-Property Rights Alliance Report Summary The Property Rights Alliance’s 2025 International Property Rights Index (IPRI) ranks 126 countries on the strength of their legal and
CASE STUDY Expropriation of property without compensation: the case of South Africa and international worst practice Authored by the FMF’s Head of Policy Martin van
Beyond savings, cuts alleviate regulatory proliferation, boosting investment 1-2% and GDP.
The process to adopt the Tobacco Bill has been fatally flawed.
Joint FMF-EPICENTER report on the spillover of European policymaking.
Practical proposals to save South Africa from an impending trade disaster.
The FMF’s submission on the proposed amendments to the PIE Act.
The FMF’s submission on the proposed so-called “Fair Pay Bill”.
The FMF’s submission n the proposed Capital Flow Management Regulations.
The FMF’s submission on the proposed Amendments to the B-BBEE Codes of Good Practice.
The FMF’s submission on the draft National Online Gambling Tax discussion paper.
The FMF’s submission on the 2025 Business Licensing Bill.
The FMF’s submission on the 2023 GILAB.
Competition Commission Summary The Free Market Foundation is of the view that the draft Public Interest Guidelines for Merger Control undermines the constitutional imperative of
The NHI Bill is politically motivated, unaffordable, incapable of delivering better health outcomes, and will infringe on numerous constitutional rights.
