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Healthcare
02 December 2022
Common-law position of member, broker and medical scheme

In a previous article I discussed the substantial role insurance brokers played in the creation of the South African insurance market and touched on the role of brokers in the medical schemes market.

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Economic freedom / Growth
01 December 2022
The size and functions of government and economic growth

The title of this article is borrowed from an April 1998 study done by three U.S. Professors of Economics, James Gwartney, Robert Lawson, and Randall Holcombe, for presentation to the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress

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Economic freedom / Growth
30 November 2022
BEE must be scrapped

South Africa’s Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana has made the right decision with his new procurement rules that empower state owned enterprises (SOEs) to set their own black economic empowerment (BEE) prequalifying criteria.

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Finance
30 November 2022
Comments on a Discussion Paper titled “A Framework for Unclaimed Financial Assets”

In September 2022, the Financial Sector Conduct Authority published a Discussion Paper entitled A Framework for Unclaimed Financial Assets in South Africa.

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Healthcare
30 November 2022
Comments on the draft Low-Cost Benefit Option Framework Report

The LCBO Framework Report describes LCBOs as medical-scheme benefit options tailored to meet the affordability constraints and pressing healthcare needs of lower-income families who wish to purchase private healthcare cover.

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News
30 November 2022
FMF Newsletter - 30 November 2022

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Economic freedom / Growth
29 November 2022
Who has the right and the power to educate your children?

The answer to the question posed in the title to this article should be: “Their parents, of course!” Unfortunately, it is not that simple. Check on the education of children in most countries and you will find that legislation has been adopted that usurps the rights and powers of parents. All with the best of intentions, of course.

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Small Business
29 November 2022
Media release: Dr Christoph Klein launches study that makes a case for economic deregulation and decentralisation

On 29 November 2022 the Free Market Foundation (FMF) presented the small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) study titled, The Case for Economic Deregulation and Decentralisation. The study was undertaken and presented by Dr Christoph Klein, who has a PhD in Economics and is the Managing Director of consulting firm dotadvisors. The study provides evidence of the regulatory problems faced by small businesses.

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Consumer Rights
28 November 2022
Competition is good

Competition is a forge. It’s hot, full of flames and potentially dangerous. But if used correctly, will create something durable, precious, and valuable.

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Economic freedom / Growth
25 November 2022
Transnet strikers and other government employees are killing the golden goose

With news of public sector employees demanding above inflation wage increases and workers at Transnet going on strike this year, the role of government in employment must is reconsidered to determine whether it is beneficial to our society.

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Finance
24 November 2022
The folly of a wealth tax

Government is proposing a tax on the wealth of the richest 1% of individuals (354,000 of them), at rates of 3-7% of wealth above R3.6 million.

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Economic freedom / Growth
23 November 2022
The Hanseatic Approach

Everybody got the hots for glory. Nobody stopped to scrutinise the plans. Paul Simon If South Africa was a horse, we would probably shoot it. But it is instead a one-horse country, and we have to find a way to save it. Imminent national collapse looms.

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