Liberty First
QLFS: Free Market Foundation urges adoption of labour law exemptions for the long-term unemployed
The national minimum wage and rigid hiring and dismissal rules have become weapons of exclusion.
11 November 2025
The national minimum wage and rigid hiring and dismissal rules have become weapons of exclusion.
Exempt the unemployed from the cause of their unemployment: labour laws.
The Department of Small Business Development should be South Africa’s foremost deregulator.
The FMF’s submission on the 2025 Business Licensing Bill.
Cutting the Cabinet is not merely symbolic. It’s a moral imperative.
Beyond savings, cuts alleviate regulatory proliferation, boosting investment 1-2% and GDP.
Where people are free to pursue their own opportunities and make their own economic choices, they lead more prosperous, happier and healthier lives.
The FMF proposes immediate and structural reforms to counter US tariffs and revitalise South Africa’s economy.
Practical proposals to save South Africa from an impending trade disaster.
Secure private property rights are a necessary ingredient to an economically prosperous, and politically free, society.