Ivo Vegter
Ivo Vegter is a freelance journalist, columnist and speaker who loves debunking myths and misconceptions, and addresses topics from the perspective of individual liberty and free markets.
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Caring about minorities vs caring about individuals
“When did liberals stop caring about minorities?” asks Martin van Staden. The answer is: they didn’t stop; they never did.
Open the payments system, don’t nationalise it
The Reserve Bank wants to open South Africa’s payment and cash systems to new competitors. Then it wants to own them.
Make America great again
Is the idea that Americans who value free markets and small government should vote Republican still valid?
Deeds to privatised land not all they’re cracked up to be
President Cyril Ramaphosa has promised black farmers title deeds to 2.5 million hectares of state land. It sounds like a good land reform idea, but it is hobbled from the start.
We are not “frontiersmen”
AfriForum’s Ernst van Zyl claims to welcome the Free Market Foundation’s “embrace of a frontiersmen mindset”. That’s exactly the problem. In response to my dismay
The best industrial policy picks no industries
Some economists accuse business of an “investment strike”. Investors don’t strike. They respond to conditions that only government can fix. A year ago, the Stellenbosch
Miaow Tse-Tung refutes Marx
A story on rising pet ownership in China jarred my pedant-bone when it quoted the claim that pets are “an asset that has no economic
The real AI apocalypse is the death of trust
Influencers are being paid to warn you that a self-improving AI will wipe out humanity. The research says otherwise. The real danger is already in
The peril of supporting ethnic identitarianism
I have always been deeply uncomfortable with the nexus between the classical liberal movement and ethnic identitarianism. Martin van Staden believes that my concern about
Non-partisan policy advice vs partisan political activism
The Free Market Foundation sent a mission to the US in support of AfriSol’s lobbying for Afrikaner interests. I think this is a grave mistake.