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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Panic over seismic surveys off the Wild Coast
The mainstream media is giving voice to a very belated campaign against a proposed seismic survey to be conducted well off the Eastern Cape coast.
Ramaphosa’s demeaning deal with the colonial masters
The president is very proud of an agreement whereby rich countries will pay South Africa $8.5 billion (R131 billion) to ‘to support a just transition to a
The case against ivermectin
One of the go-to alternatives for people who for some absurd reason are hesitant about Covid-19 vaccinations is the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin, the evidence in
FCTC COP9: Liberate the vape!
What should be top of the agenda at next week’s 9th Conference of the Parties of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control won’t be on
Is capitalism really killing the planet?
Another day, another radical anti-capitalist rant in another left-wing rag. Let’s examine parts of George Monbiot’s opus in the Guardian saying capitalism is killing the
In defence of Nando’s
Nando’s has only one raison d’être: to make a profit. When supporting Gareth Cliff’s Burning Platform show threatens to reduce the volume of peri-peri chicken
On 1 November, vote for performance, not perceptions
The Democratic Alliance (DA) is beset with perception problems, some of them false, and most of them of its own making. Despite this, a local
Krugernobyl! Exaggeration about radiation in Daily Maverick
Allegedly, radiation levels at an abandoned mine in Krugersdorp are ‘similar to … Chernobyl,’ and local people eat radioactive waste. So reports Angus Begg for
The pitfalls of polls and petitions
With every cause comes a petition, or an online poll of some sort. Evidence that some number of people agree on something is intended to
Fisking Jay Naidoo’s open letter to Barbara Creecy
Jay Naidoo’s eco-ideology is a bizarre animist fantasy in which humanity is not allowed to touch holy Mother Nature, except by Her permission. It is