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Is Cape Town thriving or just delaying Johannesburg’s fate?
Planning has become a compliance exercise rather than a tool for adaptation.
9 October 2025
Planning has become a compliance exercise rather than a tool for adaptation.
And it will only prosper when individuals are free to determine their own economic futures.
The alternative is to adapt to an ageing and potentially smaller population.
The economy is not a static pie, and economic growth is not some game of musical chairs with the same fixed rewards.
Affirmative action has tainted every black achievement with suspicions of unfair advantage.
Minimum pricing is not an innovative intervention; it is austerity disguised as morality.
Government intervention in the economy misallocates resources.
The state should, as far as possible, bring the power of the security apparatus and the criminal justice system closer to the people.
If government intervention in an economy worked, there would be jobs for everyone.