
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 11 books, including 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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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

Employment or EWC – what do ordinary South Africans want?
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Dec 23, 2021
This article was first published on 8 April 2021. Certain events have passed but the article is still pertinent to us going into 2022 [Ed.]

Why Ramaphosa should veto employment ‘equity’ bill
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Nov 25, 2021
Last week the National Assembly adopted the Employment Equity (EE) Amendment Bill of 2020 (the Bill). The National Council of Provinces is now expected to

The wild dogs should NOT lie down with the buffalo
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Nov 11, 2021
Many South Africans have been waiting, says incoming IRR CEO John Endres, for ‘a single mighty lion to bring down the old buffalo that is

Shifting from a minimum wage to a ‘living’ one
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Nov 4, 2021
Last Sunday was the deadline for public comment on the Companies Amendment Bill of 2021. This Bill was gazetted early in October by Ebrahim Patel,

Time to stop the state of disaster and amend the DMA
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Oct 15, 2021
Earlier this week, Dr Nkosasana Dlamini-Zuma, minister of cooperative government and traditional affairs and the designated minister under the Disaster Management Act (DMA) of 2002,

EWC and the tilting of the courts in favour of the state
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Oct 7, 2021
In September 2021 a new opinion poll commissioned by the IRR showed that only 5% of South Africans think land reform should be one of

More absurd claims about the EWC constitutional amendment bill
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Sep 9, 2021
Now that the Constitutional Court has ruled that the local government election must be held between 27th October and 1st November 2021, parliamentary proceedings are