
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. Follow him on Twitter, @IvoVegter.
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Chernobyl: AP stirs up baseless nuclear terror
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Apr 22, 2022
In the frenzy for clicks, likes and shares, even the Associated Press quotes rabid anti-nuclear activist in attempt to sensationalise apocalyptic fears. The occupation of

Musk’s Twitter bid sparks free speech hysterics
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Apr 19, 2022
Elon Musk’s hostile takeover bid for social network Twitter has respectable left-wing professors clutching their pearls. Elon Musk is rich. He is ultra-rich. He is

Israeli civilians bear brunt of attacks
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Apr 15, 2022
A week of terror in March brought home the harsh reality of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: appeasement won’t stop the attacks on Israeli civilians. On 22

Welcome to the totalitarian healthcare state
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Apr 12, 2022
A badly written amendment to the notifiable medical condition regulations will normalise a permanent totalitarian healthcare state. On the eve of South Africa’s first lockdown,

The pogroms are starting
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Apr 8, 2022
Innocent people are getting burnt alive. Vicious vigilante mobs are lynching people merely because of the circumstances of their birth. Evil is roaming our streets.

‘Designer Water’ claims to cure Alzheimer’s and blindness
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Apr 5, 2022
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

Generalising the idea of fuel price relief
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Apr 1, 2022
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

The far-left instigators behind the Amazon HQ case
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Mar 29, 2022
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

Small modular reactors can lead a nuclear renaissance
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Mar 25, 2022
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

The truth about Ronald Reagan
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Mar 22, 2022
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