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If jobseekers in South Africa currently had the right to freely enter voluntary contracts with employers at wages and on conditions acceptable to both parties,
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If jobseekers in South Africa currently had the right to freely enter voluntary contracts with employers at wages and on conditions acceptable to both parties,

The Free Market Foundation (FMF) is committed to the freedom of markets and enterprise within the confines of the Rule of Law and has an

South Africa’s government seems to be obsessed with an archaic Cold War ideology of East vs West.

A few years back jazz musician Eric Felten had a piece in the Wall Street Journal on how taxes put an end to the era

Forget about the tragedies of Life Esidimeni and so many others that illustrate the folly of the state trying to control everything.

Whenever anyone with real concern for the millions of unemployed South Africans speaks out and suggests that the unemployed should have the right to be

It is said that the youth are the future of any society. This adage seems to have been lost on us in South Africa, because

Benjamin Netanyahu, like Silvio Berlusconi before him, seeks to make law, “because he can”, to overcome the criminal charges against him.

The Certificate of Need (CON) provisions in the National Health Act 2003 will require doctors to apply for CONs for everything they do and plan

The Competition Commission has aroused the ire of mainstream economists and analysts with its latest Essential Food Pricing Monitoring Report for 2021 to 2022.

It takes a liberal democrat to appreciate that elections per se – not even those inspired by a constitutional, multi-party democracy – are not necessarily