Ivo Vegter

Modern snake-oil sellers have a sciency-sounding shtick about them, but ‘alkaline’ or ‘ionised’ water is a swindle. Adverts for a fancy water brand called Designer

Finance minister Enoch Godongwana has announced an emergency fuel price intervention. This idea should find much broader application in government thinking about how to revive

On the surface, the opposition to the development of the River Club property in Observatory, Cape Town appears to be a cultural, grass-roots movement. In

As Russian isolation sent oil prices sky-high and bit into natural gas supplies, politicians respond to voter demand for action on climate change, and South

Reagan achieved a sort of sainthood among classical liberals for vanquishing the stagflation of the 1970s and ringing in a new era of free markets

The Competition Commission has always had too broad a mandate, and has become an instrument to bludgeon the private sector and take sides in competitive

Instead of campaigns that get up everyone’s noses but only tinker around the edges, or investing in costly but ultimately pointless solutions, there are a

Environmental movements spend millions of dollars on campaigns to convince you and me that we are the problem. But ‘we’ aren’t. At least, we’re not

Plastic is, nowadays, almost universally reviled. Yet it shouldn’t be. It is a magnificent material, with innumerable advantages that far outweigh its few disadvantages. Plastic,

Putin and his apologists have raised a number of claims to justify the invasion of Ukraine. Only one motive is true; the others are smokescreens,