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The state is not an employer!
Election season is coming up soon in South Africa, and those with governmental power have started promising jobs to the millions who are unemployed.
7 August 2023
Election season is coming up soon in South Africa, and those with governmental power have started promising jobs to the millions who are unemployed.
Rules and regulations are not necessarily bad things; it all depends on what they do and how they are enforced.
“There is a widespread political will to make the country work,” remarks a hotelier as he details his plans for expansion and shows me an in-progress bore hole for a second swimming pool.
If, in a fit of fabulous philanthropy, Elon Musk decided to donate 10% of a billion dollars (00 million, about R2 billion, or .0005 of his net wealth) to the best proposal on how to address the current South African catastrophe, what would you suggest? Here is my proposal.
The Free Market Foundation recommends that the Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill be withdrawn.
In a submission to the committee, FMF Head of Policy Martin van Staden points to various unconstitutional provisions throughout the Tobacco Bill.
The enactment of the ill-conceived National Health Insurance Act (NHI) spells unmitigated disaster for the healthcare of the populace.
Business in South Africa, and by this, I generally mean Big Business, has tended to be acquiescent in its relationship with the post-1994 government.
The Free Market Foundation (FMF) impresses upon the 115 CEOs – who recently ‘pledged’ to help ‘build the country’ – the dire necessity for them to extract substantive policy concessions from South Africa’s hostile and destructive government.
