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.
Articles By This Author
The EFF hijacks the Ad Hoc Committee with tacit ANC agreement
The Ad Hoc Committee (the committee) responsible for drawing up a land expropriation-without-compensation (EWC) constitutional amendment bill (the bill) was supposed to meet last Friday
Three proposed changes to the EWC constitutional amendment bill
The draft constitutional amendment bill (the Bill) allowing land expropriation without compensation (EWC) is already damaging enough to make South Africa largely uninvestable. The Ad
More time to object to the impossible demands in the Pepuda Amendment Bill of 2021
Proposed amendments to the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act (Pepuda) of 2000 (the Act) could pressurise a host of companies and
The ‘bait-and-switch’ ploy behind the Employment Equity Amendment Bill
Last week the portfolio committee on employment and labour (the committee) heard oral submissions on the Employment Equity Amendment Bill of 2020 (the Bill). The
A Cheshire Cat and Two Red Herrings – what ‘nil’ compensation is likely to mean in practice
Last week the Ad Hoc Committee responsible for drafting an expropriation-without- compensation (EWC) constitutional amendment bill (the EWC Bill) invited three ministers, including minister of
Employment or EWC – what do ordinary South Africans want?
A fortnight ago the Ad Hoc Committee responsible for drafting the expropriation-without-compensation (EWC) constitutional amendment bill (the Bill) claimed that a burning land hunger among
Deep divide on EWC constitutional amendment bill
Last week the Ad Hoc Committee charged with drafting the expropriation without compensation (EWC) constitutional amendment bill (the Bill) invited several organisations to make oral
Time for a ‘great reset’ to proper public consultation on both EWC bills
Both of the parliamentary committees dealing with expropriation without compensation (EWC) bills have breached their constitutional obligations to ‘facilitate public participation’ in the legislative process.
‘Running out of other people’s money’
‘The problem with socialism’, as British prime minister Margaret Thatcher memorably said, ‘is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.’ The truth of
Invective no answer to obvious unconstitutionality
Patricia de Lille, minister of public works and infrastructure, relies on invective, insult, and falsehood – rather than the ‘fact’ and ‘honesty’ she claims– in