page_title: Free Market Foundation
section_title: Activities
hierarchical_section_title: Free Market Foundation / Activities
caption_attribution_description: English: A Free Market Foundation Khaya Lam Land Reform Project title deed event held in Grabouw, Theewaterskloof Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa, on 25 July 2017. Front row left to right: Attie van Wyk (CEO of Two-a-Day), Isaac Sileku (Deputy Mayor of Theewaterskloof), Christelle Vosloo (Mayor of Theewaterskloof), Temba Nolutshungu (FMF director), Derek Corder (Trustee of the Elgin Foundation), and Perry Feldman (Khaya Lam project manager).
context_page_description: The Free Market Foundation is a classical liberal think tank located in Bryanston, Johannesburg, South Africa. Founded in 1975, the FMF was established to further human rights and democracy through the principles of an open society, the rule of law, personal liberty, and economic liberalism and press freedom. According to The Mercury editor Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya, the FMF is a "libertarian think tank" wanting "unfettered capitalism" which "eschews all forms of state intervention in the life of the individual citizen". In 1987, Leon Louw, the FMF's Executive Director, described the work of the FMF as follows:
  "We mobilise public opinion, we lobby, we fight government, any government, and make representations and submissions. Our objective is to create a climate of public opinion among politicians, radical groups and unions in favour of free markets."
  In 2017 the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program of the University of Pennsylvania ranked the FMF as the 123rd best think tank in the category "Top Think Tanks Worldwide –," the 21st best think tank in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the 109th best "independent think tank" in the world, for the year 2016.
caption: Khaya Lam title deed giveaway ceremony in Grabouw, Western Cape on 25 July 2017. Seated in the front, left to right: Attie van Wyk (CEO of Two-a-Day), Isaac Sileku (Deputy Mayor of the Theewaterskloof Municipality), Christelle Vosloo (Mayor), Temba Nolutshungu (FMF director), Derek Corder (Trustee of the Elgin Foundation), and Perry Feldman (Khaya Lam project manager).
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