

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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Lesufi’s revenge for his Overvaal defeat
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Apr 21, 2022
Cyril Ramaphosa’s promised ‘new dawn’ continues, with yet another damaging bill soon to be opened for public comment. This time it is both the powers

Why all South Africans should resist the criminalisation of ‘hate speech’
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Apr 7, 2022
The government plans to criminalise all speech that can be brought within the broad definition of hate speech contained in the Prevention and Combating of

Rescuing mining from the Charter morass
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Mar 25, 2022
Last Friday the mineral resources and energy portfolio committee met to discuss the impact of the September 2021 Pretoria high court judgment which struck down

Smuggling in a permanent income support grant via the back door
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Mar 10, 2022
Lindiwe Zulu, minister of social development, is seeking to smuggle in a permanent ‘social relief of distress’ grant by means of regulations on which she

Time for the courts to strike down BEE
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Feb 24, 2022
Last week the Constitutional Court struck down the Preferential Procurement Regulations (the Regulations) gazetted in 2017 by the then finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, under the

More reason for Ramaphosa to veto the Employment Equity Amendment Bill
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Feb 10, 2022
The Zondo commission’s recent reports have provided chapter-and-verse on the fraud and inflated pricing that bedevilled so many of the Gupta-linked procurement contracts entered into

High Court 1, Constitutional Court 0 on paralysed local councils
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Jan 27, 2022
In the past fortnight, two meetings of the Johannesburg metropolitan council have ‘descended into chaos’, in the graphic words of Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John

How to counter the Expropriation and Land Court Bills
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Jan 20, 2022
Now that the ANC’s attempt to rewrite the property clause (Section 25) in the Constitution has been defeated, the ruling party plans to achieve its

Ratcheting up the EWC risk yet again
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Jan 13, 2022
The ANC’s failure to secure a two-thirds majority for the EWC (Expropriation without Compensation) Constitutional Amendment Bill (formally the Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill) in December

The truth about the April 1994 election
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Dec 29, 2021
The Daily Friend is rerunning some of our most-read articles over the festive season. This week marks the 27th anniversary of 27th April 1994. This date commemorates