1658, Broertje Pieterzoon, and the Liesbeeck Frontier Our family’s story in South Africa begins in 1658 with Broertje (Pieterzoon), one of the earliest free burghers settled along the Liesbeeck River. The farms that became...
Read MoreA Legacy of Solutions — The life and ideas of Leon Louw, the libertarian who helped shape SA’s Constitution Four decades ago, The Solution, a best-seller co-authored by Leon Louw, helped shape South Africa’s political...
Read MoreIt seems that a ‘fossil sucking kind teat’ will continue and Leon Louw has suggested that instead of trying to rescue SAA, the Finance Minister should unleash private investment and commit SAA to the fossil record...
Read MoreLeon Louw had an remarkable experience when he was unlawfully arrested at an illegal roadblock for questioning its legality and not for breaking any law. He points out that recently the Western Cape police boasted about...
Read MoreLeon Louw has recently written an interesting article called Benefit deniers and credit takers cling to colonialism debate in the Business Day [subscription required]. Here are some extracts from it. “There is something...
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Read More‘The terms “left” and “right” are from the 1789 French Revolution, where parties seated on the left wanted to replace the king and church’s power with liberty and equality. The modern left espouses the latter, not...
Read More‘The propensity to regurgitate politically correct nonsense is spectacular. No one queried the obvious absurdity of 2017’s budget speech, which allocates 30% of the GDP, repeating the myth that 10% of the population have 90% of...
Read MoreRacism starts by assuming race is definable and ends by treating people of defined races as single entities. Old and new racism is socialistic. It classifies people as groups, not individuals. If some Asians did something to...
Read MoreZuma’s friends and foes may thank him one day for turning us into a dynamic democracy where conscious selection by voters replaces mindless loyalty. “I do not vote for what parties did in the past,” proclaimed Radio...
Read More‘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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