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Gang violence in Western Cape demands urgent strategies to combat rising death toll
Corrupt police and military personnel are responsible for selling an exorbitant amount of firearms to gangsters.
Polity: FMF on National Health Insurance (28 May 2024)
The FMF was featured in Polity on its opposition to the National Health Insurance.
RSG: FMF on National Health Insurance (27 May 2024)
The FMF was featured on RSG about its opposition to the National Health Insurance.
The cure for crime
The omens are not auspicious. The litany of faults and failures grows ever longer. The solutions suggested by our leaders are ever more fanciful.
The ‘rooi gevaar’: it’s not okay to be a socialist
Under socialism, there is no freedom, and certainly no prosperity, for anyone except the political inner sanctum.
Codifying all crimes in South Africa now a necessity, FMF tells Parliament
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
The South African taxpayer needs a break
South Africa is in the unfortunate position of having an ineffective but expensive government.
Towards Criminal Law Codification of a Sort: The Section 12 Initiative’s Draft Criminal Code Bill
The FMF’s proposed codification of South African criminal law.
What goes around comes around
Diversity is one inevitable result of individual liberty. The freer a society the greater its diversity.
Development as a victimless crime
Protecting people from criminals is one thing; protecting them from themselves quite another. Like all victimless crime laws, these laws only make matters worse.
SA’s crime crisis: Urgent calls for decentralised policing, legal reforms
Eliminating these pseudo-crimes would also help ease the burden on the courts, and free up space in prison for genuine criminals.
IOL: Martin van Staden on Tax Freedom Day (20 May 2024)
Martin van Staden was featured in Independent Online on the FMF’s publication of 2024’s Tax Freedom Day.
