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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Turning land into ‘dead’ capital via EWC
Last week US secretary of state Mike Pompeo warned that expropriation without compensation (EWC) would be ‘disastrous’ for South Africa and its people. President Cyril
‘Wooing’ international development financiers while ‘screwing’ local banks
President Cyril Ramaphosa remains intent on attracting R1.2 trillion in fixed investment by 2023 and so restoring the country’s failing infrastructure. Earlier this week, at
The EWC ‘reassurance’ ploy – and the reasons it’s so wrong
In a recent Investment Research Note put out by Nedbank Private Wealth, political analyst JP Landman claims to be ‘cutting through the noise’ surrounding the
‘Don’t think it can’t happen to you’
‘I have heard it said many times, by…people [elsewhere in] the world, that what has happened to Venezuela could never happen to them…. And that’s
Government can take your home, farm, or business premises under Constitutional Amendment Bill
Effective land reform is still required, but the Draft Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill of 2019 (the Draft Bill) will needlessly undermine the property rights of
Two-thirds majority vote on EWC amendment will suit ANC, not SA
The ‘75%’ versus ‘66.6%’ conundrum on the EWC constitutional amendment bill In calling last month for public comment on the Draft Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill
Forging ahead with EWC under a ‘reformer’ president
Among the many promises made by President Cyril Ramaphosa in the ANC’s 8th January anniversary statement was a pledge to ‘provide land to those who
Revolution still the ANC’s priority, rather than reform
South Africa remains in crisis at the start of this new year. It confronts a flailing Eskom and the prospect of persistent (often Stage 6)
Eskom and the ANC: Still refusing to do the right things
Unplanned outages at Eskom power stations reached more than 14 000MW on the Saturday before Christmas. This once again raised the spectre of load-shedding over the
The EWC Bill and the ‘Great Escape’ from poverty
‘The government will never pass a law which people have raised rational points against,’ pledged Nathi Mthethwa, minister sports, arts, and culture in November 2019.