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Ignoring business will doom the economy
There is no economic growth without a thriving private sector.
15 May 2025
There is no economic growth without a thriving private sector.
Market-based systems around the world have resulted in greater individual wealth which means better health, longer lives, and greater comfort.
Either the state pays for expropriation by means of compensation, or the rest of us, especially the most destitute, pay for it in the form of economic decline.
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.
No liberty is subject to the approval of the community elders or the woke mob, or to a majority veto. “Tradition,” “progress,” and “democracy” can sit down in the face of freedom. Sorry, not sorry.
We must mentally reserve the status of law to something more enduring and more majestic. Something that a single generation cannot simply, by the stroke of a pen, chop and change.
Getting your mindset right is by no means the be-all and end-all of stateproofing. It is after all the most impractical and amorphous step in the process. But I argue that it is the most important and the most difficult step.
Business ought not be disappointed about what they should have seen coming a mile away, and with sufficient forewarning.
David Ansara appeared on BizNews to discuss the Free Market Foundation’s demand for business to stand against bad government policy.
The Free Market Foundation insists that organised business must change its future approach to dealings with government, and reject the NHI proposal with the contempt that it deserves.
