By end-June 2024, Khaya Lam had completed 15,632 transfers – an average of 331 transfers per month since February 2023.
The FMF calls for a reduction in the size of government, the promotion of free trade and private property rights, greater protection of the domestic currency, and a significant decrease in regulation.
The FMF proposes that the current, bloated Cabinet should be reduced from 31 portfolios to only 10 ministries.
In the document, titled Liberty First: A policy agenda for South Africa’s 2024-2029 parliamentary term, the FMF argues that the path to prosperity is not only accessible, but that it is charted.
These preconditions should be given legislative effect within the first month after Parliament’s first sitting on Friday, 14 June.
The FMF warns that the eagerness to form a ‘government of national unity’ risks co-opting the opposition at a time when accountability is most needed.
The FMF has urged political parties in South Africa to reject all possible coalition arrangements in favour of a ‘no-alition’ confidence-and-supply alternative.
The illegal cigarette market in South Africa is bigger than the legal market, all due to government action.
Codifying all the conceivable conduct for which someone might be liable for a criminal record, a fine, or imprisonment, is an important, definitional place, to start.
The Free Market Foundation (FMF) has calculated and published South Africa’s Tax Freedom Day annually since 1997.
