We need to know that the fruits of our labour won’t be looted by politicians, mafias and criminals.
Expropriation of assets threatens both foreign and domestic investment.
Lawmakers would do well to do something they have yet to do – ask the public in 2025 “is this bill really a priority when South Africa faces so many other problems?”
the regulatory system is of far more concern to those being regulated than it is to the rest of us.
From top to bottom, the military hierarchy needs to be reassessed.
Zimbabwe’s modern gulag is not defined by barbed wire or watchtowers but by economic despair, political repression, and a lack of basic human rights.
Martin van Staden was featured on Pretoria FM on the establishment of a new water state-owned enterprise.
This article was first published by Business Day on 5 February 2025 Parastatals and government institutions have thrust SA into years of rolling blackouts, generated insurmountable levels of debt
We really don’t want a sovereign wealth fund or centralised investment agency in this country. It would be looted of everything and be a fiscal blackhole.