

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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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

One day left to help kill the bill
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Aug 12, 2021
Tomorrow is the deadline for public comment on proposed amendments to Section 25 (the property clause) of the Bill of Rights, as set out in

Damaging Constitutional Amendment Bill should be scrapped
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Jul 22, 2021
The Draft Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill is so damaging that it must simply be abandoned. The sanctity of property rights should instead be strongly reaffirmed,

Lessons from the vaccine roll-out for the NHI
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Jul 8, 2021
The government’s bungled and tardy Covid-19 vaccine roll-out has predictably led to an upsurge in infections, great suffering among the ill and isolated, and many

Confronting the real ‘power hierarchy’ barring SA’s upward mobility
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Jul 1, 2021
In his snide critique of the IRR and other opponents of the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination (Pepuda) Amendment Bill (the Bill),

The NHI and ‘Blatant Elite Enrichment’
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Jun 24, 2021
The National Health Insurance Bill of 2019 (the NHI Bill) is back before Parliament, for the National Assembly’s portfolio committee on health (the health committee)