Tag: FMF
Real world wealth distribution and honest estimate
For subscribers only Whilst some judgment summaries are available to all, this judgment summary is reserved for subscribers only. If you are already a subscriber, you can login to see this judgment summary. If you cannot login,...
Read MoreHang citizens only when guilty of crimes
“Steven Friedman’s tirade against Herman Mashaba and the Free Market Foundation is all essentially nonsense, writes Leon Louw. If you hang us, hang us for crimes we committed, is my response to Prof Steven Friedman’s...
Read MoreDisastrous state-sponsored monopoly: Endangering cellphone users
“He (Telecommunications Minister Siyabonga Cwele) wants to subject you to a ghastly nationalised, socialised, incompetent, corrupt, patronage-driven, outdated, regressive, loss-making, apartheid-style telecommunications...
Read MoreMental magic mundane mannerisms: Bring in the clowns
“Despite our differences, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi and I have something in common. He calls me a clown. I call him misguided. He is authoritarian. I am libertarian. He thinks consuming sugar, tobacco, liquor,...
Read MoreSweet tooth tax: Deprived discrimination
“Sugar-sweetened beverages tax discriminates regressively against the poor by disproportionately stripping them of income. The Department of Health admits that the tax will not affect the rich. Its spokesman warned that if the...
Read MoreProhibition impersonating protection: Lobby for liberalisation
“Cattle, sheep, horses and chickens are not endangered despite mass hi-tech slaughter because they are privately owned and traded. If rhino horn, ivory and other wildlife products were commercialised, inhumane poaching...
Read MoreMind over matter: Be happy
“To the WHO and its surrogate health departments, you are like a tree in an orchard. To the FMF, you have a mind. Your psychological and physical health entail complex body-mind relationships. Seemingly unhealthy behaviour...
Read MorePAJA review: Range of competing interests
“Much remains to be clarified. The bottom line, however, is that the court accepted the extension of bargaining council agreements as a reasonable and necessary mechanism of sectoral bargaining which, when taken by unions and...
Read MoreContractual freedom: Minister must think before extending
Ironically, although the FMF achieved more than expected, the judgment could undermine the laudable principles of “voluntarism” and “majoritarianism” endorsed by the court. The FMF wanted to leave...
Read MoreRights job seekers: Collective bargaining and legality
Free Market Foundation v Minister of Labour (13762/13) [2016] ZAGPPHC 266 [2016] 8 BLLR 805; (2016) ILJ 1638; [2016] JOL 35802 (HC) (4 May 2016) per JR Murphy J [KE Matojane J and AC Basson J concurring]. Job seekers fall...
Read MoreConscious capitalists: Liberty contrasted with power
Free-market capitalism allows “conscious capitalists” to adhere to their code of ethics and unconscious capitalists to ignore it. What upsets irrational critics of capitalism — a derogatory term derived from...
Read More