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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Advocates advising Parliament confirm key role for courts in disputed expropriations
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
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)
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?
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
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
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
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
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 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
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;