The Free Market Foundation (FMF) was founded in August 1975 to promote freedom of enterprise in South Africa. This occurred in response to what was evidently, at the time, a government with little interest in allowing South Africans to make decisions about their own economic affairs. Since South Africa’s infamous system of racial segregation came to an end in 1994, the FMF has responded with new zeal to a democratic government that has signalled its intention to curb the very entrepreneurial freedom necessary to undo the country’s seemingly endemic poverty.
