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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EWC constitutional amendment bill: mere bagatelle or major threat?
The draft Bill to amend the Constitution to allow expropriation without compensation (EWC) is ‘much ado about nothing’, an article in Business Day said yesterday.
Time to terminate present empowerment policies
In 1994, the ANC put a shiny but misleading gloss on its proposed BEE, employment equity, and land reform policies. It said that: BEE would
More ANC propaganda around the NHI
As tomorrow’s 29 November deadline for written submissions on the NHI draws ever closer, so the ANC is stepping up its propaganda in support of
Eskom = load shedding, the NHI = life shedding
South Africans have a scant week left to say their first resounding ‘No’ to a National Health Insurance (NHI) proposal likely to capsize the economy
‘Bringing Zimbabwe to South Africa’
There is no room for complacency. A parliamentary ad hoc committee is pushing ahead with the drafting of a bill to amend Section 25 (the
Three sacred cows to line up for the slaughter
Last week’s mini budget laid out in stark statistics the magnitude of South Africa’s accelerating economic crisis. Finance minister Tito Mboweni expects a revenue shortfall
Will your NHI taxes go to Eskom or SAA?
National Health Insurance (NHI) is supposed to help the poor, but in fact it will give the state a monopoly over healthcare, further shackle the
Classical liberalism has the answers – which is why it’s so derided
If any organisation is demonstrably callous towards the marginalised, it is the African National Congress (ANC), which insists on maintaining BEE despite its proven inability
‘Going along to get along’ on BEE helps only the political elite
Rather, the mining industry should voluntarily adopt a very different approach to empowerment that seeks not to create a narrow group of black capitalists but
What’s left of Tito’s economic recovery plan?
None of finance minister Tito Mboweni’s most important proposals has been supported by the national executive committee (NEC) of the African National Congress (ANC). Some