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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Prescribed assets and a BIG for more dependency and political control
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Jul 14, 2022
The SACP is gearing up for its 15th national conference, to be held before the end of this month. Its revised programme, entitled the South
Time to reject defective ‘employment equity’ laws and accusations
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Jun 30, 2022
The latest annual report of the Commission for Employment Equity (CEE) shows that Africans make up 76% of top management in the public sector, whereas
Levelling the political playing field by cutting BEE procurement back to size
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . May 5, 2022
Part 4 of the Zondo commission report into state capture came out last week. It primarily rehashes and reaffirms the story of how Eskom was
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