Today’s demands for registration, zoning compliance, and other bureaucratic hurdles apply across the board and leave businesses with a choice: operate illegally or shut down entirely.
The core recommendations of the report to improve South Africa’s EFW score on free trade are to revoke tariffs and industrial subsidies adopted during the past parliamentary term.
Ultimately, the reliance on strategic litigation must be a temporary remedy, not a permanent crutch.
For us to learn from a rich historical event like the Nazi era, we need to be able to speak clearly about it.
South Africa is not equipped to run a vast state-run natural resource mining enterprise. And it shouldn’t be.
I expect a mix of energy solutions for us in the future, comprising coal-based, nuclear, gas and renewables. That is enough choice for consumers and governments to feel hopeful and productive.
These and many other superficially sensible legal rules help keep South Africans unsafe. But any legal rule is only as powerful as the compliance with it.
So-called “basic” rights cannot in any substantive way be separated from the foundational right of private property.
Only the liberal conception of freedom, ultimately, makes coherent sense. This is unsurprising, for liberalism is the philosophy of liberty. Freedom is its focus, whereas in both the cases of progressivism and national-conservatism other factors weigh heavier.
Not all new ideas are beneficial. Socialism/Marxism was a new and fundamentally awful idea which changed the world dramatically for the worse.
