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You Own Your Home, But For How Long Can You Afford It?
Property ownership represents one of the most significant means by which ordinary households build and transmit wealth across generations.
May 22
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RS Guest Author
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The Curse of Congo’s Wealth
Why the DRC’s immense wealth and massive aid inflows have produced immense poverty
May 19
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RS Guest Author
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South Africans Need To Be Fireable
We can fix our unemployment. We just need to allow employers to say the simple phrase: “You’re fired!”
May 18
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Nicholas Woode-Smith
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Why South Africa Fails
Freedom is not a luxury for rich countries. It is the precondition for poor countries to become rich.
May 11
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Nicholas Woode-Smith
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How To End Unemployment
South Africa is cursed with a host of regulations and laws that stifle business freedom and discourages companies from employing workers unless they…
Apr 20
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Nicholas Woode-Smith
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Stop Taxing Fuel
Petrol and diesel are essential goods. Without them, there is no economy. No food, no pumped clean water, no electricity. Petrol tax shouldn’t be…
Apr 13
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Nicholas Woode-Smith
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Governments Are Dishonest About The Causes Of Inequality
Inequality is a problem, but the cause of that problem is government.
Mar 26
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Mpiyakhe Dhlamini
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The Stealth Tax
Why South African Capital Gains are Often an Inflationary Illusion
Mar 25
4
Grant Dependency Is Nothing To Brag About
We must stop pretending that ever-expanding welfare is “compassion” while the state simultaneously sabotages the very conditions that allow people to…
Mar 23
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Nicholas Woode-Smith
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Why Government-Led Job Creation Won’t Fix Unemployment
The private sector, not the government alone, is the solution to unemployment
Mar 11
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Zakhele Mthembu
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Why Medicine Is Expensive
Healthcare is expensive not because it is complex alone, but because its architecture suppresses the very forces that would normally discipline cost.
Feb 22
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Bryan Theunissen
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Free Banking Rather Than Bitcoin Is The Sustainable Way To Stateproof Our Money
While the Free Market Foundation gets 99% right, I must disagree with the recommendation of Bitcoin as a reserve asset.
Feb 21
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Mpiyakhe Dhlamini
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