Privatisation: The key to fixing SA’s failing municipalities
The solution to municipal collapse is to replace their functions with institutions that are directly incentivised to do a good job.
The solution to municipal collapse is to replace their functions with institutions that are directly incentivised to do a good job.
This article was first published by Daily Friend on 22 August 2024 The recent controversies over “racism” at Pretoria High School for Girls and Chidimma Adetshina’s
Expelling them, quietly, for actual misbehaviour, is an appropriate remedy. Traumatising them in full view of the world is not.
We have a responsibility towards ourselves, and this is the only way liberty can exist and be sustained.
Communities need to work towards providing positive male role models, social clubs, and better alternatives to gangs for local youths.
The question is what we will do to rise to the occasion. We have long been told to do nothing but ‘vote harder’, but that ship has – at least for a couple of years – sailed.
The MPC could represent a new pillar in South African society that unites around its charter of values, like the rule of law, federalism, an open market economy, and non-racialism.
SA’s pernicious and morally egregious broad-based BEE experiment in social engineering should be cast into the dustbin of history.
This article was first published by Daily Friend on 8 February 2024 The municipal and provincial governments of Cape Town and the Western Cape, and the
Martin van Staden was featured in OFM expressing the FMF’s doubts about the relevance of the State of the Nation Address.