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Is This the End of ANC Rule in South Africa's Cities?

Is this the beginning of the end of ANC rule in South Africa’s cities?

7 hrs ago • Rational Standard Editor

Land Reform Must Put Farmers Before Race

South Africa’s latest land redistribution initiative risks repeating the costly mistakes of the past by prioritising racial transformation over…

13 hrs ago • PIET DU PLESSIS

Ubuntu and Capitalism: Partners in South Africa’s Renewal

How entrepreneurship, community cooperation and African humanism can work together to rebuild South Africa.

Oct 29 • Ian Campbell-Gillies

The Nothing-Burger Budget

South Africa’s budget offers fiscal discipline, but no real growth plan.

Oct 28 • RS Guest Author

Economic Freedom Is Essential, Not Optional

The path to a different future lies in expanding the freedoms that evidence shows are effective. Anything less will see us continue down the road to…

Oct 27 • Zakhele Mthembu

Three Laws Keeping South Africans Unemployed

Scrap the laws that punish hiring, punish growth and punish investment. Then get out of the way and let South Africans work.

Oct 26 • Nicholas Woode-Smith

Cruelty by Default: The Human Cost of the ANC's Immigration Failures

By treating illegal immigration with decades of passive tolerance, institutional inefficiency, and periodic token crackdowns, the ANC-in-government…

Oct 25 • PIET DU PLESSIS

Stop Calling South Africans ‘Unemployable’

The state needs to stop making employment expensive and enterprise illegal.

Oct 24 • RS Guest Author

Is UCT Punishing Free Speech?

Can a university that claims to defend academic freedom justify punishing its own critics?

Oct 23 • Rational Standard Editor

Taxing Taxis Won’t Fix The Tax Base, Freedom Will

The state has built a wall around the formal economy and then complains that people are standing outside it.

Oct 23 • RS Guest Author

Inflation: Africa's Tax Without a Tax Bill

Inflation arrives unannounced and cannot be refunded.

Oct 22 • RS Guest Author

Whose Interests Should Come First In Education?

Ultimately, the interests of learners, and not unions, will have to prevail.

Oct 21 • Ayanda S Zulu

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