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Ramaphosa’s faux recovery plan (FMF podcast)

21 September 201821 September 2018 Free Market Foundation 0 Comments Cyril Ramaphosa, Free Market Foundation

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Correcting Pierre de Vos on the Constitution and the Constitutional Court

20 September 2018 Martin van Staden 0 Comments Constitution, Constitutional Court, expropriation, Frans Cronje, Institute of Race Relations, Pierre de Vos, Property

Prof Pierre de Vos of the University of Cape Town recently wrote on his popular blog, Constitutionally Speaking, a response

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Anarchism for the Future

18 September 2018 Mpiyakhe Dhlamini 0 Comments anarchism, Elections, Minachism, voting

Nothing about anarchy guarantees a free and prosperous world. It simply says that each individual should be able to choose

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Sounding the Alarm on Property Rights – Where the IRR Stands, and Why

17 September 201817 September 2018 Terence Corrigan 0 Comments AfriForum, expropriation, Expropriation Bill, Expropriation Without Compensation, Institute of Race Relations

Written by: Terence Corrigan Criticism has been levelled at the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) in recent weeks – including

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Shifting the Overton Window in South Africa

14 September 2018 Daniël Eloff 0 Comments Academia, Arguments, Ben Shapiro, debating, Donald Trump, Education, expropriation, Free Speech, Freedom of Speech, Logic, Marxism, Overton Window, social justice

The ‘Overton window’ has become a buzzword among many liberty-loving colleagues and allies during the past few years. The term,

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And Then There Were Two

11 September 2018 Martin van Staden 0 Comments 2019 elections, African Christian Democratic Party, African National Congress, COPE, democracy, Democratic Alliance, Election, Elections, expropriation, Freedom Front Plus, Parliament, Pieter Groenewald, Property, Terror Lekota, voting

As has now been well-documented in the archives of the Rational Standard, this past week was a low-point among low-points in

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It Is Time To Embrace AfriForum

10 September 201811 September 2018 Nicholas Woode-Smith 0 Comments AfriForum, eNCA, Ernst Roets, expropriation, News24, Pieter du Toit

I am not a joiner. Those who know me know that I’m quite the individualist. I may start projects and

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Quantitative Easing and Inflation: A Response to Russell Lamberti

10 September 2018 Jacques Jonker 0 Comments Keynesianism, Reserve Bank, Say's Law, Supply and Demand

First off, I’d like to give thanks to Russell Lamberti for taking the time to respond to my previous article.

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Mr Roets Goes To Cape Town: When The NDR Agenda Was Exposed

8 September 20189 September 2018 Mpiyakhe Dhlamini 0 Comments African National Congress, AfriForum, communism, Communist Party, Democratic Alliance, Ernst Roets, expropriation, Parliament, Property, revolution

On the 6th of September 2018 I witnessed a shameful spectacle. A citizen was attacked by his representatives for presenting

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Hugo Grotius’ Philosophy of Law

8 September 20188 September 2018 Sir Johannes Wilhelmus Wessels 0 Comments Hugo Grotius, Law, Netherlands

Editor’s note: Hugo Grotius, also known as Hugo de Groot, was one of the great ‘old authorities’ on Roman-Dutch law.

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