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Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) directors should re-read the personal liability sections in S45 in the Companies Act 2008 (the Act) before extending any further largesse to SA Express Airways (SAX). The public needs answers to a number of questions. …
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“You might forget the rugby, but never forget TANSTAAFL,” Leon Louw, Executive Director of the Free Market Foundation (FMF), reminded South Africans. “There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch!”
The start of the 2019 Rugby World Cup (RWC) …
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In the Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) 2019 Report, South Africa ranks 101 out of 162 countries. This is a fall of two places from last year but is a massive fall of 54 places since 2000 when the …
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When young Americans grow up, rarely do you hear them being excited about going to study in Europe when they leave school. Why would they be? They have world-class universities and immense opportunities at home. It is not uncommon, however, …
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Did government blink in the face of SAX demands? It had been reported that, finally, there was a voice of reason within the government regarding public funding for failed state-owned enterprises (SOEs). But, subsequent developments may contradict this.
Last week, …
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Every passenger on every South African Express (SAX) flight is obscenely subsidized with money diverted from poverty relief and taxpayers by approximately R3,850 (R7,700 return). Assuming 50 passengers per flight on average, this is the equivalent to two RDP houses …
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Instead of righting the wrongs of apartheid, Expropriation Without Compensation (EWC) will perpetuate the evils. Apartheid’s greatest travesty, of which one of the worst legacies is the specter of EWC today, was expropriation without compensation of black held land. Instead …
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Discovery CEO Adrian Gore mentioned at the recent Leadership Summit that there is an element of “declinism” – a pessimism about the state of one’s country – in South Africa, and that it did not accurately represent the situation facing …
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