
Radio Rosestad: Martin van Staden on State of the Nation (8 February 2024)
Martin van Staden was featured in Radio Rosestad expressing the FMF’s doubts about the relevance of the State of the Nation Address.
Martin van Staden was featured in Radio Rosestad expressing the FMF’s doubts about the relevance of the State of the Nation Address.
Martin van Staden was featured in Netwerk24 expressing the FMF’s doubts about the relevance of the State of the Nation Address.
Martin van Staden was featured in Maroela Media expressing the FMF’s doubts about the relevance of the State of the Nation Address.
30 years into our democratic dispensation, it has become abundantly clear that the time of big government has come to an end.
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.
David Ansara was featured in the South African on ideas about how best to stateproof against political harm in South Africa.
David Ansara was featured in the Daily Investor on ideas about how best to stateproof against political harm in South Africa.
Martin van Staden was featured in Eskom News on the privatisation of old power plants in Tshwane.
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 to a stateproof lease.
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 to obey what the state deems the cultural ethos to be.