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Economic freedom / Growth
24 June 2022
Remove impediments to the spirit of enterprise to achieve economic growth

South Africa’s economy is in a mess, to say the very least, and all this is solely and exclusively the fault of policymakers.

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Finance
23 June 2022
Reserve Bank’s inflation of the money supply makes us poorer and is unconstitutional

When money cannot fetch the same amount or quality of goods as it used to, it is safe to say that it has devalued. The Constitution prohibits this devaluation by the Reserve Bank by requiring it to protect the value of the currency.

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Economic freedom / Growth
22 June 2022
Why South Africa is not flourishing

It is important though to look carefully and concisely at why South Africa is failing to grow and deliver a dignified life of increasing flourishing for South Africans.

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News
22 June 2022
FMF Newsletter - 22 June 2022

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Rule of law / Law
20 June 2022
Legal profession regulation threatens judicial independence in the long-term

Since the Legal Practice Act of 2014 came into operation, a change came about in the legal community that is unnoticeable on the surface, but which will have significant consequences over time.

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Healthcare
17 June 2022
Government blocking affordable health solutions

The recent presentation at the Board of Healthcare Funder’s annual conference by Christoff Raath, joint-CEO of Insight Actuaries, should garner wide support from the private healthcare industry.

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Economic freedom / Growth
15 June 2022
Comment on the Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill

The overriding reaction of the average reader to the contents of the Bill, and responses to it, is that many of the proposed provisions are considered necessary as corrective action for poor past administration.

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Economic freedom / Growth
15 June 2022
South Africa is suffering unnecessary turmoils

South Africa is suffering from a multiplicity of turmoils, one of which has been Covid-19, the others being totally homegrown. South Africans have been battered mercilessly, and in many ways, unnecessarily.

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Economic freedom / Growth
15 June 2022
Economics is child’s play

Ten children are invited to a birthday party. As they arrive, they are each given three golden tokens. The host explains that they will play various games with great prizes using these tokens.

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News
15 June 2022
FMF Newsletter - 15 June 2022

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Economic freedom / Growth
14 June 2022
The private sector is the people’s sector

The private sector in South Africa is seen as an evil that must be heavily restricted if not expressly prohibited.

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Economic freedom / Growth
13 June 2022
No speeches to peaches – Africa’s frolic to Davos

Contemporary African intellectuals, historians, self-styled Pan Africanists, patriots and good old liberal political commentators such as myself carry divergent opinions of why South Africa shuns – or does not commemorate? – Africa Day.

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