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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SA needs sweeping labour-law reform, not tinkering at the edges
South Africa needs bold reforms to overcome its unemployment crisis. Instead, the Department of Employment and Labour has put forward for public comment a raft of minor changes. A few of these are positive, but most are likely to deter job generation.
More jobs for pals under a damaging new water licensing system
The water crisis South Africa has long faced is looming ever larger as persistent water shedding spreads from rural areas to Johannesburg and other metropoles.
Slamming the brakes on a stalled economy via the Licensing Bill
The Business Licensing Bill of 2025, an initiative of the Department of Small Business Development, is exactly the opposite of what South Africa needs to
Three key questions for mining minister Gwede Mantashe
In 2024 mining exploration spending in South Africa dropped to R779.5m, the lowest figure since 1993. This paltry sum, as investment banker Paul Miller notes,
Unacknowledged dangers in the new mining bill
The Mineral Resources Development Bill of 2025 has been roundly rejected by most commentators on the struggling mining industry. Mining analyst Peter Major says the
There is in fact a better alternative to BEE, Mr Grootes
This piece was written in response to Stephen Grootes’s piece in the Daily Maverick, “BEE on borrowed time — why attacks on SA’s social engineering
BEE helps few, harms many: a response to Index of Race Law critics
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?
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
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
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