Ivo Vegter

It is high time that an organisation, private or public, takes aim at alternative medicine and other pseudoscientific woo. Let’s start with applying the Consumer

The UN has a notorious record of nominating the worst violators to its watchdog committees on human rights and the status of women. This is

Paul Ehrlich’s doom-laden book, The Population Bomb, informed opinions and public policy for decades. Not only was he wrong, but the real crisis now emerging

A recent survey shows that a quarter of South Africans would settle for a dictatorship, provided it guaranteed basic human rights and solved the country’s

Idealistic renewable energy policies and obstinate anti-nuclear sentiments are crumbling in the face of cold reality, as desperate countries turn to oil and coal. Pollution,

President Cyril Ramaphosa gets super-excited about green hydrogen. Back in the real world, however, green hydrogen is an inefficient pipe dream that won’t reach maturity

International bureaucracies such as the IMF and the OECD used to give fairly good advice. This is no longer always the case, as they drift

Despite its claimed commitment to free enterprise, the DA is proposing to erect high regulatory barriers specifically targeted at foreign interactive gambling operators.  In today’s

The annual Economic Freedom of the World Report scores major components of liberty in countries around the world. South Africa continues to fall in its

It’s always been hard to be a libertarian. An ideology of individual freedom attracts a lot of nutcases. I now think the label has been