Despite slow improvement during the 1990s, South Africa’s economic-freedom rating continues to fall midway among rated countries: its ranking remained steady, 48th (out of 115)

by Jim Peron

Gil Gifford, crime reporter for “The Star”, recently wrote an article which revealed that crime is costing South Africans about R80 million

By Jim Harris and Leon Louw

Introduction

Much good work has been done on how best to combat crime. This article brings no technical ability

Better and cheaper imports are the key benefit of free trade — not increased exports, say economists. Exports are what we have to give up

By Jim Peron

The environmental Left has constantly chanted the mantra “we are running out of everything.” And it seems that a lot of people

By Jim Peron

I grew up in Chicago. Now there are two types of weather in Chicago: too hot and too cold. The last year

by Eustace Davie, Director, Free Market Foundation

A recent report of the technical committee of the Investment Sub-Committee of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors

By Leon Louw

Privatisation

Former President Mandela and other officials have given periodic assurances that nationalisation is no longer on Government’s agenda. Instead, Government intends

By Henry Kenney, Senior Lecturer in Business Economics at Wits University

The end of the century and the end of socialism

As the end of

By Leon Louw, Executive Director of the Free Market Foundation of Southern Africa.

WHITHER SOUTH AFRICA AFTER MANDELA?

According to the experts, the ANC