

Anthea Jeffery
Dr Anthea Jeffery holds law degrees from Wits, Cambridge and London universities, and is the Head of Policy Research at the IRR. She has authored 12 books, including Countdown to Socialism - The National Democratic Revolution in South Africa since 1994, People’s War: New Light on the Struggle for South Africa and BEE: Helping or Hurting? She has also written extensively on property rights, land reform, the mining sector, the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) system, and a growth-focused alternative to BEE.
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BEE helps few, harms many: a response to Index of Race Law critics
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Mar 9, 2025
The recent News24 article, List of ‘race laws’: a tool for insight or a catalyst for misunderstanding?, published on 25 February, contained criticism of the

Can the GNU defeat the NDR?
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Dec 10, 2024
In the 30 years since 1994, the African National Congress (ANC) and its allies in the South African Communist Party (SACP), the Congress of South

The Chagos Islands: many dangers ahead
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Nov 14, 2024
The Chagos Islands: many dangers ahead On 3rd October 2024 the Labour government in the United Kingdom (UK) agreed to cede the Chagos Islands in

Reforming Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Oct 14, 2024
There are many reforms the Government of National Unity (GNU) must implement to fulfil its core goals of boosting growth and jobs. One of the

Advocates advising Parliament confirm key role for courts in disputed expropriations
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Apr 27, 2024
The Expropriation Bill of 2020 (the Bill) has been adopted by Parliament and will become law once President Cyril Ramaphosa gives his assent to it.

The dangers in the ICJ ruling against Israel
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Jan 31, 2024
On Friday 26th January 2024 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) handed down its judgment in South Africa’s application for ‘provisional measures’ against Israel under

Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi (1928-2023)
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Sep 10, 2023
Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, who died in the early hours yesterday at the age of 95, was an exceptional South African. One of his most important

Socialism and the NDR – or growth and jobs in an open market democracy?
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Aug 25, 2023
The Multiparty Charter embraced last week by the Democratic Alliance, the Inkatha Freedom Party, Action SA, the Freedom Front Plus and three other political parties

An incremental revolution
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Jul 22, 2023
With growth stalling, joblessness at crisis levels, and governance unravelling, most South Africans cannot fathom why the ANC does not embark on meaningful reform. The

A high court judgment that invites more land invasions
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Dec 28, 2022
This piece, which was the Daily Friend‘s second-most read article of the year lays out the threat posed by a a court ruling to property