
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 11 books, including 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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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

Hostility to property rights
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Dec 22, 2022
As South Africans are being asked yet again to suspend their now practised cynicism and allow that the governing ANC really does mean to renew

President Cyril Ramaphosa: the most effective ‘RET’ leader of all
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Sep 22, 2022
Last week, a Business Day editorial commended President Cyril Ramaphosa for the ‘important structural reforms’ being implemented under his watch. These reforms, it said, included

The ‘custodianship’ risk in the Expropriation Bill
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Sep 8, 2022
By this time next week, the Expropriation Bill of 2020 (the Bill) may already have been adopted by the portfolio committee on public works and

Simple solutions under the law and the Constitution
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Aug 25, 2022
Misconceptions abound about two key issues currently confronting the country: the validity of the medical parole granted to former president Jacob Zuma in September 2021;

The NDR steps up towards a BIG and MMT
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Aug 11, 2022
President Cyril Ramaphosa is generally portrayed as a successful businessman with a pragmatic grasp of economic realities and a personal preference for the growth-friendly policies

A high court judgment that invites more land invasions
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Jul 28, 2022
A flawed judgment handed down last week by a full bench of the Western Cape high court has further undermined the property rights of all