FMF NEWSLETTER 22 MARCH 2017

FMF NEWSLETTER 22 MARCH 2017 

Dear friend of the FMF

This week’s feature article examines the contentious issue of land reform. The State owns a large amount of idle land in South Africa. To make substantive progress, Martin van Staden argues that the State should hand over its idle land to deserving, poor and previously disadvantaged people. If we want real, meaningful land reform, not just political point-scoring, the poor should be given title deeds and secure property rights, which will empower individual families. 

Government land is central to land reform – MARTIN VAN STADEN

With politicians spewing anti-property rights rhetoric, we could but wonder what exactly sets the democratic government apart from the former apartheid regime.

The central feature of apartheid was a denial of property rights to black South Africans, a tradition that the democratic government has continued. Just as it was under the Nationalists in the past, government today still controls a substantial amount of land in South Africa. For most of the historically-black areas, this remains especially true.

Wednesday, March 29 MEDIA BRIEFING – Leon Louw, FMF Executive Director; Terry Markman, FMF Exco Member and Perry Feldman, Khaya Lam (My Home) Land Reform Project Manager – Land reform without expropriation –  @ 17h45 @ FMF  – RSVP http://www.freemarketfoundation.com/View-Event?i=140

May 24 & 25 2017 Africa Liberty Forum – Sandton – more info to follow

June 6 Global Intellectual Property Centre roundtable – Johannesburg – more info to follow

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The right unwritten constitution
Bill launched to ban foreigners from buying farm land in SA
Why robbing ‘Pieter’ to feed ‘Sizwe’ will not work – transformational entrepreneur

Business Day column ICT policy matters because the internet will be everything – Leon Louw, 15 March 2017

Media releases
To nationalise or compromise? Minister Cwele’s dilemma on ICT policy
NHI demarcations regulations – Two million people set to lose medical insurance overnight

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Gareth Cliff – Internet access and free speech
Xola Ntshinga – Did you know telecoms policy is nationalisation and expropriation in disguise?
Xola Ntshinga – Did you know data prices in SA are not as high as #datamustfall asserts?
Xola Ntshinga – Did you know there are more cell phones in SA than people?
Rex van Schalkwyk – From ridicule to prison: Nowhere to hide from the Hate Speech Bill
Leon Louw & Dobek Pater – Telecoms policy will set back SA’s development by decades
Mark Oppenheimer – Free speech: A vanishing right

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