LETTER: Holding the liberal line is getting harder in SA
Today in SA, Churchill would bemoan the expropriation of our hard-earned wages
01 October 2020 - 18:07
There is no gainsaying that both the Free Market Foundation (FMF) and the Institute of Race relations (IRR) do fine work in holding the liberal line of “a market economy, property rights, freedom of speech and the rule of law”.
They are worthy successors to Sir Winston Churchill, the popular liberal, even when a Conservative prime minister. However, he differed from the FMF and IRR by condemning land ownership traits and blaming the state, while the FMF and IRR hold such ownership to be sacrosanct (“Ideology, in SA as in Zimbabwe, is seldom for the good,” September 29)...
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