To all our supporters, members, friends, and the South African public, please take all necessary steps to remain safe and healthy in these very difficult times. 

The FMF has been hard at work researching the impact of the lockdown, especially the impact of regulations on poorer South Africans.

To read all of the FMF's work on the COVID-19 lockdown thus far, click here.

Covid-19 and the case against a state-run National Health Insurance – Michael Settas

Government has no legal means to access the R200-billion that is privately funded by medical scheme members, so the only option is to legislate a monopoly for itself and increase the NHI budget beyond the existing public sector budget by raising dedicated NHI taxes or levies. In our post-Covid economic meltdown, that is about as likely to happen as Donald Trump apologising for being misogynistic.

The weaknesses shown in public health delivery during the Covid-19 pandemic - most especially in the Eastern Cape - has emboldened a resurgence of National Health Insurance (NHI) protagonists. The claims of the NHI proponents, however, remain steeped in an emotive and largely naïve assessment that almost exclusively blames the state's inability to deliver quality care on a perceived maldistribution of resources between the private and public sectors.

Where does SA rank in 2020 Economic Freedom of the World report?

Wednesday, 30 September 2020

Between 1200 and 1330 on Wednesday, September 30, Business Leadership SA (BLSA) and FMF will be presenting a webcast on: Expropriation Without Compensation and post-lockdown South Africa: Turning a disaster into an opportunity

Speakers: Busi Mavuso (CEO, BLSA); Temba A Nolutshungu (Director, FMF); Tebele Luthuli (Director of Policy and Legislation, BLSA); Martin van Staden (Head of Legal (Policy and Research), FMF)

To register, please open the flyer HERE and click on the LINK it contains

Media releases – FMF tribute to George Bizos
Global economic freedom was up slightly in the past year – South Africa ranks 90th among 162 jurisdictions

FMF CEO Statement – Eskom and Matjhabeng municipal farms scandal went unnoticed

FMF interview on eNCA – SA's economic freedom ranking improves – Leon Louw, FMF CEO
FMF interview on SAFM – Worldwide launch: Economic Freedom of the World: 2020 Annual Report – Leon Louw, FMF CEO

FMF articles – Only a free market and disciplined Parliament can end corruption – Martin van Staden
Any job is better than no job; any income better than none – Lindelwa Fuku
 

FMF video, in partnership with Atlas Network – Khaya Lam – Upward Globility: Whose land is it anyway? | South Africa

Quarterly Review: April 2020 – June 2020
Media Digest & Cuttings August 2020 for all media coverage

Family’s RDP home sold without their knowledge
Why modern monetary theory is such a dangerous drug
The Covid trap: will society ever open up again?

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