
The following are edited remarks I delivered at the launch of the joint Free Market Foundation-Solidarity Research Institute report on the cost of so-called “broad-based black economic empowerment” policies at Melrose Arch, Johannesburg, on 12 June.
Thank you to everyone for making the time to be here today. I am Martin van Staden, and I am the Head of Policy at the Free Market Foundation.
I am going to take this opportunity to provide a very brief overview of race law in South Africa today, before my colleague, Dr Morné Malan, dives into the detail of the cost of the country’s biggest race law.
Please, however, do not just take it from me that South Africa legislates by race…
Provinces: The country is divided into nine provinces: Eastern Cape, Free State,
Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape, North West, and Western Cape.

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Fun South African Fact: South Africa in size is three times the size of Texas and five times the size of Japan.
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