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Media Advisory: FMF Khaya Lam initiative celebrates empowering 10 000 families with title deeds
Tomorrow, Tuesday 17 October 2023, the FMF will host an event celebrating the success of its Khaya Lam initiative, in Klapmuts, Stellenbosch.
South Africa’s electricity crisis: A call for privatisation and a brighter future
This article was first published by BizNews on 6 October 2023 Eskom continues to collapse, leaving South Africans in the dark and the cold, even as winter
Daily Investor: Zakhele Mthembu on competition policy (16 October 2023)
Zakhele Mthembu, FMF Legal Researcher, was featured in Daily Investor on the harmful interference by the Competition Commission in the commercial operations of Takealot and
A call for responsible and constitutional governance in South Africa
This article was first published by BizNews on 5 October 2023 The behaviour of some members of Parliament and other office-bearers in government leaves the observer with
The world’s political processes are criminal at heart
The corporatist state is the biggest threat to individual liberty that has emerged since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
‘Tshwane must privatise power stations outright,’ FMF tells City after power station lease proposal
The business-as-usual approach is fraught with risk, which is why the FMF has proposed that Tshwane either privatise the power stations outright, or subject them
Democracy, the hidden autocrat
Perhaps like at the turn of the twentieth century, it is once again time for a concerted effort to be made towards finding a better
eNCA: Zakhele Mthembu on competition policy (10 October 2023)
Zakhele Mthembu, FMF Legal Researcher, appeared on eNCA to discuss harmful interference by the Competition Commission in the commercial operations of Takealot and other online
South Africa’s fiscal precipice: The chickens have come home to roost
It would be better if we never had this SRD grant but now that we have it, the government has to end it as soon
‘Selfdoen’: The Solidarity Movement and AfriForum are conservatism done right
Building ten private universities with an engrained and transferable cultural ethos is a much stronger safeguard than adopting a law that requires all educational institutions
In the war on poverty, the world progresses but Africa goes backwards
This article was first published by Business Day on 26 September 2023 Just moe than 20 years ago I debated in print a rather gloomy position about the
Foolish to stake all our hopes on the flawed democratic process
If you want to know what people think and want, try selling it to them.