The core recommendations of the report to improve South Africa’s EFW score on free trade are to revoke tariffs and industrial subsidies adopted during the past parliamentary term.
Medium-term reforms for the GNU to implement as regards fiscal prudence.
For us to learn from a rich historical event like the Nazi era, we need to be able to speak clearly about it.
These and many other superficially sensible legal rules help keep South Africans unsafe. But any legal rule is only as powerful as the compliance with it.
No liberty is subject to the approval of the community elders or the woke mob, or to a majority veto. “Tradition,” “progress,” and “democracy” can sit down in the face of freedom. Sorry, not sorry.
So-called “basic” rights cannot in any substantive way be separated from the foundational right of private property.
Only the liberal conception of freedom, ultimately, makes coherent sense. This is unsurprising, for liberalism is the philosophy of liberty. Freedom is its focus, whereas in both the cases of progressivism and national-conservatism other factors weigh heavier.
Like the DA, Gwarube herself has no democratic authority to serve exclusively at the pleasure of the President.
A ‘one-coalition’ state is not necessarily much better than a ‘one-party’ state, as the erstwhile National Front in East Germany and the so-called Unified Front in modern Communist China shows.
Everything that happens in Orania happens voluntarily and on private property.
