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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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)
Forty-five years after the Soweto Revolt, racism is not the problem
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Jun 17, 2021
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
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Jun 10, 2021
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
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Jun 3, 2021
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?
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . May 27, 2021
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