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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High time for the SACP to test its own voter support
The South African Communist Party (SACP) should also relinquish its stranglehold over the African National Congress (ANC), and free the ruling party to reflect the
State land ownership to ‘break the power of white capital’, not provide redress
Land redistribution of the kind envisaged by the ANC and its SACP ally will empower the state, not provide redress for past land injustices. Speaking
Mugabe’s death, and Zimbabwe’s dire suffering, should prompt a rethink of EWC
South Africans cannot allow a self-serving ANC elite to inflict a Zimbabwe-type disaster on the country. The death last week of former Zimbabwe president Robert
Three more reasons not to trust the ANC with EWC powers over land
Expropriation without compensation (EWC) offers no redress for past wrongs – it only empowers the state, not the individual, and will be used as a
Keep the glimmers of hope in the Tito document aflame
For all its flaws, finance minister Tito Mboweni’s document provides chinks of light in the gathering gloom, and the moderate majority should actively endorse it.
Jettison the EE Act; don’t jack it up
The Employment Equity Act is not only unconstitutional but also damaging to most South Africans, and should be repealed. Thulas Nxesi, employment and labour minister
The devil in the detail of NHI procurement
The procurement complexities of NHI alone will suffice to cripple delivery … as bureaucrats at national and district levels trip over each other in tendering
Why saying ‘No’ to NHI is vital
Anthea Jeffery | Aug 15, 2019 The National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme is likely to destroy the healthcare system and make it inordinately difficult for most people
The SACP’s ‘capture’ of South Africa’s democracy
Anthea Jeffery | Aug 08, 2019Theirs is a totalitarian concept fundamentally at odds with an open, accountable, and multiparty democracy. In its 98th anniversary statement issued earlier this
Expropriation űber alles
Eroding property rights will put South Africa on the path to a Zimbabwe-type economic implosion, with devastating consequences. The report of the Presidential Advisory Panel