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Licensing Laws Deepen South Africa’s Electricity Crisis

06/12/2023 Mises Wire Dumo Denga

Since 2007, South Africa has been experiencing an electricity crisis. Eskom (a South African state-owned company) cannot produce enough electricity to meet increasing demand, so Eskom has implemented...

Taxation Is Theft and Cannot Be Justified Even for Charitable Causes

02/17/2023 Mises Wire Dumo Denga

In her article “Multinationals Make Obscene Profits Out of Global Crises—Tax Them to Defend Human Rights,” Magdalena Sepúlveda called for more taxation of multinational corporations and the rich as a...

The State Will Always Set the Rules in Its Favor

01/19/2023 Mises Wire Dumo Denga

Johan Smit wrote an opinion piece in which he highlighted the double standards of treatment in situations where the private sector was treated more harshly than the state when both parties committed...

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Licensing Laws Deepen South Africa’s Electricity Crisis

07/06/2023 Dumo Denga

South Africa is suffering from rolling blackouts and other power outages. These could be avoided if the government would permit competition in electricity markets.

The State Will Always Set the Rules in Its Favor

01/28/2023 Dumo Denga

Remember Lady Justice, who wears a blindfold and holds the scales? She is a state creation, too, and when it comes to state wrongdoing, her thumb holds the scales down.

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