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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DA manifesto: the least bad option
The DA’s local government manifesto is the most economically literate platform in South African party politics. That is faint praise, but it does not merit more than that.
Funding journalism: the tender mercies of the state
Styli Charalambous says only the state can fix journalism’s “market failure”, but the state’s two journalism funding efforts produced a propaganda organ and a Gupta laundromat.
Whose family, whose values?
An anti-gay, anti-sex-ed conference supported by the American religious right is coming to Cape Town next year. It will be as awful as you’d imagine.
Hoppe: the bridge between libertarianism and the alt-right
Hans-Hermann Hoppe promises liberty, but delivers feudalism. His ideas explain why some libertarians drift rightward into ethnic nationalism – and why ethnic nationalists have learnt to talk like libertarians.
Are the kids of today ignorant?
Maybe I’m just a curmudgeon, but I’m often startled by the lack of general knowledge of younger people. Am I right? Are they stupid?
The tawdry efforts to smear the DA
Rebecca Davis and her colleagues at Daily Maverick sure have it in for the Democratic Alliance. Having exposed no wrongdoing, one has to wonder, why?
Parliament discovers tobacco harm reduction
In a rare outbreak of evidence-based policy, the Portfolio Committee on Health has repudiated the dogma that “harm is harm”. Credit where credit is due.
The false binary at the heart of the grid ownership row
Busi Mavuso’s free-market case for an independent grid operator is excellent, and consistent with the president’s stated policy. The Eskom board’s objections are also legitimate. But this is not a binary choice.
Slaying fantastic monsters: the campaign against SA’s data centres
Activists have discovered a new dragon to slay: the data centre. If they succeed, they will have protected poor South Africans from jobs, investment and
Trust us, we’re the government
Democracies across the world are assembling the machinery of media control that we once associated with totalitarian states. They all say it’s for our own good.