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Why have community banks all but disappeared?
That we over criminalise in this casual fashion means that a chilling effect is introduced into banking entrepreneurship.
FMF Rule of Law Project seeks to put crime reform on the election 2024 agenda
It is an election year, and no political party is treating violent crime in South Africa as exceptional. Announcing the Section 12 Initiative.
Can we address real crime in an overcriminalised society?
The scourge of violence will not be addressed unless we get serious and radical about criminal justice reform.
Serfdom awaits if we do not allow poor South Africans to help themselves
Those who claim that the government needs to ‘create jobs,’ of which there are plenty in South Africa, are fundamentally dishonest.
Subsidising billionaires and SOEs are bad business
Each rand taken from a taxpayer is one rand less they have to spend on goods and services they value.
The glaring fallacy of affirmative action policies
SA’s pernicious and morally egregious broad-based BEE experiment in social engineering should be cast into the dustbin of history.
Free Market Foundation congratulates its Head of Policy on rule of law award
The FMF extends its congratulations to Martin van Staden for placing first for the 16th International Vernon Smith Prize.
Rule of Law: The Universal Unwritten Constitution
FMF Special Paper Summary Constitutionalism – one of classical liberalism’s significant legacies in jurisprudence – is the idea that the state must be subject to
The folly of economic planning
The only viable economic plan is to allow people to be free to make their own decisions.
Take the port or build a port – but passivity is out of the question!
This article was first published by Daily Friend on 8 February 2024 The municipal and provincial governments of Cape Town and the Western Cape, and the
Sorry, Siyahleba but SA is indeed a federation
That our subcentral governments have deferred (too much) to the central government is not a question of legality, but one of political will and obsequity.
FMF 2024 submission on General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill
The FMF’s submission on the 2023 GILAB.