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South Africans need to be fireable
In a country with such high unemployment we need to encourage job creation.
28 May 2026
In a country with such high unemployment we need to encourage job creation.
The FMF’s submission on the proposed so-called “Fair Pay Bill”.
South Africa fails because its institutions punish productivity and protect predation.
The ANC-led government is willing to trade the freedom of South Africans for its own power and privilege.
The instinct to regulate AI, like many other forms of regulation, is intuitive.
Racism and unequal treatment before the law are wrong regardless of scale.
Allow companies to take risks on their own terms, and don’t protect workers from economic realities or accountability.
Tobacco is also subject to additional taxation beyond the value-added tax, which is charged on all products except for a select few.
Subjective valuation is not an empirical hypothesis that can be falsified by regression tables, but an intrinsic feature of human action.
Scrapping fees for the unemployed is a positive step, but true progress requires removing the deeper regulatory obstacles that keep millions from working.