Author: Temba A Nolutshungu

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Making America great again

Liberty is what made the United States of America different from the rest of the world. It was at the core of America’s historical greatness and the fundamental value of its people.

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The spectre of a national minimum wage

The jury has delivered its verdict. Organised labour, the Deputy President, the Minister of Labour and a host of other narrow vested interests have all been found guilty, on the basis of empirical evidence, of conspiring to exacerbate South Africa’s

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Alternatives to Expropriation

Did you know government could radically speed up land reform without expropriation? Did you know that five to seven million black South African families live on council-owned urban property which could be transferred into their names giving them se

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The lamentable paradox of affirmative action policies

To date, the biggest political fraud perpetrated post-apartheid is the enactment of affirmative action policies, euphemistically referred to as black economic empowerment. A fraud because the proponents of the policy must have been aware of the empirical evidence that affirmative action policies, wherever they have been pursued throughout the world,

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Stabilise rand by dropping forex controls

FACED with a falling rand, mounting inflationary pressure, chronic unemployment and lacklustre growth, SA is at a tipping point. When the Reserve Bank’s monetary policy committee met recently, it raised interest rates to save face but this move is li

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