Heritage Day 2026 Heritage Day (24 September) and Heritage Month (1-30 September) are celebrations of more than just culture; they are celebrations of freedom. They are a time to pause, reflect and embrace the right to be different. Culture is perhaps the greatest manifestation of human action without human design. No one plans a culture. It is what Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek called a spontaneous or unexposed order. On Heritage Day and Month, South Africans are encouraged to appreciate...

An Article by Leon Louw, Freedom Foundation & Izwe Lami What should Eskom’s CEO be paid, and who should decide? Ask, and you expose the wider myth beneath headlines about excessive fortunes greedy executives supposedly pay themselves. Thomas Sowell, perhaps the greatest living economist, has spent much of his superlative career dismantling this and related myths. He points out that pay, like every price, is not decreed. It emerges from competition and what people whose money it is are willing...

Somewhere over the past year, something extraordinary happened. Billions of people started making important decisions based purely on competence. Not gender. Not race. Not age. Not appearance. Every day we ask ChatGPT to draft a proposal, Claude to critique our thinking, Perplexity to check the facts, Gemini to research the alternatives and Copilot to crunch the numbers. We move effortlessly between them. We don't know their gender, race, age or background and we never stop to ask. Frankly,...