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.
The national minimum wage and rigid hiring and dismissal rules have become weapons of exclusion.
What an incredible honour it is to receive, on behalf of Khaya Lam, the Bertie Lubner Humanitarian Award.
The Department of Small Business Development should be South Africa’s foremost deregulator.
21 October 2025 Blaai af vir Afrikaanse weergawe. The Free Market Foundation (FMF) has launched a report at a press briefing today identifying the concerning
The Expropriation Act is plainly unconstitutional, as the Constitution requires the payment of an amount of just and equitable compensation.
Cutting the Cabinet is not merely symbolic. It’s a moral imperative.
The Bill will not attain the goal of reducing smoking. It will only push more smokers into the illicit market.
The FMF said that it “is the only organisation in the Republic with the singular goal of advancing capitalism.”
Where people are free to pursue their own opportunities and make their own economic choices, they lead more prosperous, happier and healthier lives.
The state cannot replicate any of these steps because it neither owns the treasure it spends nor answers to the people whose treasure it was.
This would also improve the racial diversity of these areas and help to do away with their role as racial strongholds for parties like the ANC.
The year started off on an ugly note with the signing of the Expropriation Act by President Cyril Ramaphosa in late January.
Someone must generate wealth before the state can claim it.
“You are going to lose so bad, like you’ve never lost before.”
Biological essentialism, in some ways, continues to be a lens that people use to make sense of issues and difference in South Africa.
It requires almost every business in the country to apply for a licence, and to renew it every five years.
What is clear beyond any reasonable doubt is that there is no opposition to the anti-gambling crusade in Parliament.
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.
Avenues for land reform that are pro-growth, pro-constitutional, and pro-freedom.
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.
The national minimum wage and rigid hiring and dismissal rules have become weapons of exclusion.
What an incredible honour it is to receive, on behalf of Khaya Lam, the Bertie Lubner Humanitarian Award.
The Department of Small Business Development should be South Africa’s foremost deregulator.
21 October 2025 Blaai af vir Afrikaanse weergawe. The Free Market Foundation (FMF) has launched a report at a press briefing today identifying the concerning
The Expropriation Act is plainly unconstitutional, as the Constitution requires the payment of an amount of just and equitable compensation.
Cutting the Cabinet is not merely symbolic. It’s a moral imperative.
The Bill will not attain the goal of reducing smoking. It will only push more smokers into the illicit market.
The FMF said that it “is the only organisation in the Republic with the singular goal of advancing capitalism.”
Where people are free to pursue their own opportunities and make their own economic choices, they lead more prosperous, happier and healthier lives.
The state cannot replicate any of these steps because it neither owns the treasure it spends nor answers to the people whose treasure it was.
This would also improve the racial diversity of these areas and help to do away with their role as racial strongholds for parties like the ANC.
The year started off on an ugly note with the signing of the Expropriation Act by President Cyril Ramaphosa in late January.
Someone must generate wealth before the state can claim it.
“You are going to lose so bad, like you’ve never lost before.”
Biological essentialism, in some ways, continues to be a lens that people use to make sense of issues and difference in South Africa.
It requires almost every business in the country to apply for a licence, and to renew it every five years.
What is clear beyond any reasonable doubt is that there is no opposition to the anti-gambling crusade in Parliament.
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.
Avenues for land reform that are pro-growth, pro-constitutional, and pro-freedom.
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.
