Instead of kowtowing to government, business should insist the state steps aside, the Free Market Foundation has argued.
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The Competition Commission’s investigation into online markets in South Africa has been given another extension.
The SABC should become a proper private enterprise incentivised by profit and driven by competition and innovation.
A floating electricity price would help to alleviate the chronic shortage of power in South Africa.
South Africa will have a robust electric-power supply system only once its electricity generation, transmission, distribution and control functions are separated and independently run.
The Competition Commission wants to punish leading enterprises in the digital space for being successful, the Free Market Foundation said.
Communications minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni remains convinced that a state-owned network infrastructure company can trump the private sector. She is mistaken.
The commission’s decision to refer Meta Platforms for prosecution to the Competition Tribunal will dim South Africa’s investment prospects even further. By Zakhele Mthembu.
Small business development minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams seem intent of doing the opposite of what is really required of her. By James Peron.
The prohibition on the private ownership and free trading of spectrum is an “artefact” that has “neither a technological basis nor is supported by economic theory”, says the Free Market Foundation.