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
Confronting the real ‘power hierarchy’ barring SA’s upward mobility
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’
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)
Forty-five years after the Soweto Revolt, racism is not the problem
Yesterday marked the 45th anniversary of the start of the Soweto Revolt. Back then, on 16th June 1976, black South Africans faced pervasive racial discrimination
Compelling the ANC to listen to the people on EWC, land reform, racism, and the NDR
The ANC has always claimed a unique entitlement to act, speak, and rule on behalf of South Africa’s black majority. This arrogance, along with its
Nationalisation by stealth is coming, courtesy of the shifting EWC Bill
An early IRR warning of nationalisation via ‘custodianship’ Seven years ago, back in 2014, the IRR warned that the ANC would seek to nationalise all
Has the ANC leopard changed its NDR spots?
Seeming discord between the ANC and EFF The ANC seems to be distancing itself from the EFF’s demand that the Ad Hoc Committee responsible for
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