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Safiyya Patel, Managing Partner at Webber Wentzel

Employment Equity

Understanding B-BBEE: Costs, benefits, and economic growth

Safiyya Patel 2 days

Source: Pexels.

Land Policy, Reform & Restitution

"Wandile Sihlobo is too bullish on the Expropriation Act"

Martin van Staden 14 Mar 2025

Economy

Creating a job shouldn’t cost R365,000 (but it does in SA)

Nicholas Woode-Smith 16 Oct 2024

Financial Services

Brics currency proposal: A misguided venture doomed to fail

Nicholas Woode-Smith 23 Sep 2024

Economy

SA GDP breaks zero-growth streak: A 0.4% rise in Q2 2024

Katja Hamilton 3 Sep 2024

Source: Gary Moore, senior consultant at the Free Market Foundation.

Banking

Banks Act gives Prudential Authority unconstitutional powers over banks

Gary Moore 26 Aug 2024

Healthcare

The unreasonable nature of drug laws

Zakhele Mthembu 31 Jul 2024

Land Policy, Reform & Restitution

Land rights: New legal amendment places Minister squarely in the way of substantive land reform

Brian Benfield and Gary Moore 29 Jul 2024

Source: Reuters.

Economy

FMF calls for ‘No-alition’ government in SA

5 Jun 2024

Source: Supplied. Gary Moore is a senior consultant at the Free Market Foundation.

Taxation & Regulation

BEE points and income tax - a double deduction?

6 Feb 2024

NHI

NCOP's NHI approval: No surprise here

Mike Settas 12 Dec 2023

NHI

"Business must stop grovelling and realise its power to oppose NHI"

David Ansara 22 Nov 2023

Affordable & Social Housing

FMF's Khaya Lam initiative grants 10,000 title deeds

18 Oct 2023

Source: © Jeshootscom Is TV dead and if so should consumers still be paying the SABC tv licences?

TV

TV is dead but the SABC refuses to die

Nicholas Woode-Smith 27 Feb 2023

Economy

SA's economic-freedom rating deteriorates further

8 Sep 2022

Let foreign truckers drive

Road Freight & Fleet Management

Let foreign truckers drive

Nicholas Woode-Smith 15 Jul 2022

Source: REUTERS. Vuhlari Mtonga, one of the South African medical students who fled Ukraine, is embraced by her sister, Mikateko Mtonga, after arriving at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg in March 2022.

Trends

SA medical students flee Ukraine - not too long ago it was Cuba, remember?

Collette Marais 1 Jun 2022

Natural Medicine

The cannabis industry inhibited by State action from the outset

Zakhele Mthembu 11 Mar 2022

NHI

NHI: a far removal from reality?

Gail Daus-van Wyk 8 Mar 2022

Legislation & Regulation

Expropriation Bill unconstitutional in the absence of a constitutional amendment

Gary Moore 24 Feb 2022

Is localisation a cure for avian woes?

Agro-processing

Is localisation a cure for avian woes?

22 Sep 2021

Independent Ports Authority a step in the right direction

Shipping

Independent Ports Authority a step in the right direction

Chris Hattingh 7 Jul 2021

Africa free trade agreement could provide necessary momentum for improving SA's port infrastructure

Shipping

Africa free trade agreement could provide necessary momentum for improving SA's port infrastructure

Chris Hattingh 22 Jun 2021

Chris Hattingh, deputy director, Free Market Foundation

Economy

"Power to the people" means economic freedom, not state paternalism

Chris Hattingh 10 Mar 2021

Film & Cinematography

Upward Globility TV series highlights land ownership in South Africa

17 Jun 2020

Theewaterskloof Mayor Christel Vosloo hands out title deeds in Grabouw

Agribusiness

Theewaterskloof Mayor Christel Vosloo hands out title deeds in Grabouw

19 Mar 2019

Photo: Kempton Express

Public Health

Is NHI going to make the SA economy even sicker?

Jasson Urbach 27 Feb 2019

SAA appears to be in a tail spin. EPA/Udo Weitz

Markets & Investment

South African taxpayers can't keep bailing out broken airline

Jannie Rossouw 29 Nov 2018

South Africa's energy future a pawn in a larger political game

Energy

South Africa's energy future a pawn in a larger political game

Issued by UCT Graduate School of Business 1 Nov 2018

Martin van Staden

Legislation & Regulation

Is equality really equal?

Martin van Staden 21 Dec 2017

Chris Hattingh, researcher at the Free Market Foundation

NHI

Free Market Foundation: NHI is morally bankrupt

Chris Hattingh 19 Dec 2017

Telecoms bill spooks sector with its proposal

Legislation & Regulation

Telecoms bill spooks sector with its proposal

Nick Hedley 11 Dec 2017

Dr Johann Serfontein, Free Market Foundation health policy unit

Public Health

Free healthcare for all: A political fairytale

2 Nov 2017

Tax credits, funding and the NHI

NHI

Tax credits, funding and the NHI

Dr Johann Serfontein 10 Oct 2017

Private healthcare for the poor

Public Health

Private healthcare for the poor

Martin van Staden 5 Oct 2017

What is the real cost of NHI?

NHI

What is the real cost of NHI?

Martin van Staden 14 Sep 2017

Are the demarcation regulations unconstitutional?

Medical Aid

Are the demarcation regulations unconstitutional?

8 Aug 2017

FMF questions NHI financing model

NHI

FMF questions NHI financing model

20 Jul 2017

Photo: Red Cross Children's Trust

NHI

NHI should focus on the poor

12 Jun 2017

Reviewing freedom of choice, as plain packaging tobacco rules considered

Regulatory

Reviewing freedom of choice, as plain packaging tobacco rules considered

Martin van Staden 31 May 2017

Eskom: Some dinosaurs need to become extinct

Energy

Eskom: Some dinosaurs need to become extinct

29 May 2017

Could the Hate Speech Bill criminalise all speech?

Legislation & Regulation

Could the Hate Speech Bill criminalise all speech?

Martin van Staden 8 May 2017

Demarcation regulations: In whose best interests?

Medical Aid

Demarcation regulations: In whose best interests?

22 Mar 2017

Government plans for mobile networks could be disastrous

Network

Government plans for mobile networks could be disastrous

3 Feb 2017

Consumers winning as service providers battle for market

TV

Consumers winning as service providers battle for market

17 Jan 2017