Economics

The ANC Is Burying South Africa’s Riches

South Africa’s future prosperity depends on ending its war on wealth creation. The mining sector does not need more charters, committees or ideological…

23 hrs ago •

Nicholas Woode-Smith

Prohibitionist Responses To Gambling Risk Pushing Activity Underground

Gambling is not going to disappear, nor should it. But the current trajectory – where technology, advertising and financial ease conspire to expose the…

Nov 17 •

RS Guest Author

When Good Intentions Collide with Bad Economics

We cannot regulate and subsidise our way to prosperity. Poverty will only end when South Africans are empowered to create wealth, not wait for it to be…

Nov 4 •

RS Guest Author

Medical Aid And Tax Credits: Pick Your Poison

By unshackling the market, we can create a more equal space for all.

Oct 31 •

RS Guest Author

The Unheralded Little Players In Private Education

Here I would like to highlight the lesser-known smaller groups and schools that have shown extra-ordinary innovation in filling the gap left by…

Oct 30 •

RS Guest Author

Commercial Culture Is Needed In South Africa

The best way to foster a commercial culture and accommodate commerce is to allow the trade of services, such as e-hailing, to operate as freely as…

Oct 29 •

Zakhele Mthembu

Your Grocery Bill Is Right; The Government Is Wrong

Stats SA reports inflation in neat, single digits. You know better. You’ve watched pap, rice, oil, eggs, taxi fares, school fees, DSTV, and data all…

Oct 28 •

If Regulation Works, Why Does Everything Suck?

It’s not just about one bad law or one corrupt official. It’s structural. The rules keep changing in ways that sound helpful, but somehow, always seem…

Oct 21 •

ANC Economic War Room Doomed To Failure

The only intervention the government should make is to ensure that the country is safe and stable, so that companies can compete and determine which…

Oct 17 •

Nicholas Woode-Smith

Nobody Wins A Trade War

Trade wars only result in ludicrously increased tariffs that harm the very nation implementing them, while consumers suffer on all sides of the pond.

Oct 15 •

Nicholas Woode-Smith

Taxation of Capital Gains and Inflation

Experience indicates once governments embark on the taking of private property, they rarely, if ever, are pursued to abandon that course by sound…

Oct 7 •

RS Guest Author

How Regulation and Taxes Perpetuate the Housing Crisis

If we want genuine broad-based home ownership, we must stop treating property transfer as an opportunity to tax and feed bureaucracies.

Sep 29 •

RS Guest Author

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