Slogans serve dogma: not knowledge and understanding
‘Why are such vacuous slogans as ‘white monopoly capital’ and ‘radical economic transformation’ taken seriously?’ “Inequality” implies a socioeconomic definition of equality, but...
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Secrecy liberation considered: Rights morphing into obligations
Whether you regard secrecy as a right or obligation defines whether you are for or against liberty. Rights, though, have a habit of morphing into their opposite, obligations. Victims seldom realise their loss. The most common...
Read MoreFantasies freaks junkies: Power and personal freedom
“Personal freedom is conceptually simple yet commonly misrepresented and misunderstood. It exists when no one does anything to anyone or their property without informed consent. It makes no distinction between personal...
Read MoreLiberty and equality: Empowerment through information and education
“Let me be very clear: it is not about sugar. Nor about any other area of social control. Once the principles of self-ownership and equality are surrendered in seemingly trivial contexts, they are lost in all contexts. ...
Read MoreCapitalist Crusader Mashabsa: Latest book
A self-made entrepreneur who started his business Black Like Me in the dark days of apartheid wants to free South Africans from poverty. Herman Mashaba says he can no longer remain silent on the state of the South African...
Read MoreLiberty works: Embracing true economic freedom
“As a speaker at the greatest annual gathering of lovers of liberty, FreedomFest, in Vegas, I interacted with some of the world’s most brilliant people. The FreedomFest luminary list included Nobel laureate Paul Krugman; Whole...
Read MoreLiberty always works: Not an end in itself
The standard response to the Free Market Foundation’s call for agreements between unions and employers to bind only contracting parties ignores the foundation’s motives and arguments and accuses it of being funded by foreign...
Read MoreProsper through liberalising and privatising
Writing in Business Day today Leon Louw maintains that ‘prosperity is the natural consequence of voluntary interaction between people free to produce and exchange goods and services. When their governments relaxed their grip,...
Read MoreProtective laws curtail liberty and prosperity
Only the Department of Justice and the police should be involved in protecting citizens. Entrepreneurs (risk-takers) should be left in peace provided they do not deceive anyone into ‘believing that making money is guaranteed or...
Read MoreIllegal, immoral or fattening: Enjoy while you can
The government seems determined to deprive us of our lifestyle and liberty and adopt policies to make us the world’s healthiest country. There are to be new policies with graphic tobacco package warnings (cancerous body...
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