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Sim Tshabalala should reconsider the EWC Act’s risk
Tshabalala’s optimism feels like a bank exec understandably trying to keep the markets calm, but it sidesteps the real risks.
17 March 2025
Tshabalala’s optimism feels like a bank exec understandably trying to keep the markets calm, but it sidesteps the real risks.
Bills of rights are and will always – no matter De Vos’s complaints – be constitutional protections for civil liberties.
Whereas Sweden, Canada, and New Zealand have deep traditions of limited state power and restrained politics, countries like South Africa do not.
With the formation of the GNU the party has allowed itself to be ideologically co-opted.
All of history’s lessons mandate that it should always be very difficult for the state to divest owners of their property.
A lot of problems in South Africa arise because people pretend to not know the ANC.
It is beyond disputing that the provisions of the Act render it unconstitutional.
But despite the racialised rhetoric, this is not black versus white. It is totalitarianism versus liberty.
Appeals to “pragmatism” without further ado inevitably come down to either telling a lie to oneself or to others, for the person who has no underlying ideology does not exist.
We simply do not know what is best for our fellows. To vote as if we do, setting aside their ability to self-determine entirely, is (coercive) arrogance of the highest order.
