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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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We save in order to spend in the future. To do this effectively, we need to know that our future spending power will be at least equal to current spending power, that the savings will “store value”. In this article …
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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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Following the discussions about the NHI (National Health Insurance), I am struck by how little regard is given to self-ownership. To preclude the possibility of ownership by someone else, self-ownership is a necessity. Black Africans were enslaved in the Americas …
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When seeking care from a hospital or doctor, patients will now be required to present their proof of registration with the National Health Insurance (NHI) Fund to access healthcare services. Registration can be refused. Never before have South Africans’ constitutional …
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The 2014 Rule of Law Index report has this to say about the importance of the rule of law to a country’s business environment:
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You cannot legislate people out of poverty. You cannot regulate jobs into existence. Jobs need to be created, and at the moment, the South African government is slowly but surely suffocating businesses’ ability to create jobs by continuously adding more …
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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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Trade between people is one of the greatest ways to increase prosperity around the world. We each bring different skills and resources to the table, and specialization has resulted in the lowering of costs of all sorts of goods. Whereas …
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