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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South Africa’s decline reflects poor economic freedom indicators
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
Libertarians have irreparably tarnished the label
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
Patel’s dreams of autarky bode ill for the public
The Department of Trade Barriers, Inflation and Collusion is working on a new scheme, this time to raise the prices of car, taxi, bus and
Solar farms use vast amounts of land
The world’s largest solar photovoltaic farms give us an insight into how much acreage is required to produce meaningful amounts of electricity. The history of
How much meat is there in meat products?
The processed meat industry has been complaining to the government about vegan and vegetarian meat analogue products that contain no meat. This is rank hypocrisy.
Renaming vegan products to protect meat and dairy industries
As I predicted, the vegan and vegetarian charlatans have launched legal action to thwart the government’s efforts to protect consumers from confusion, and the meat
Does vaping turn you into a pothead?
Science about public health issues is often agenda-driven. The latest nonsense to emerge from the halls of academia is that youth vaping leads to cannabis
Have the Nats been proven right?
With increasing frequency, I hear that the old-school apartheid racists were right: hand over control to black people, and you’ll end up with a corrupt,
Marxists expose media capture plot
A new report has exposed the ugly truth about South Africa’s liberal media: its nefarious funders seek to advance democracy, defend press freedom, combat corruption,
Ebrahim Patel faces economic reality over chicken prices
In a stunning admission that import tariffs materially hurt consumers, so-called ‘anti-dumping’ tariffs on chicken are being suspended for a year. They should be suspended