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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Vaccine injury compensation fund: a counter-proposal
That ‘whoosh’ you heard was the passing yesterday of the four-day comment period for the proposed Covid-19 No-Fault Compensation Scheme. I have a counter-proposal. With
Jay Naidoo’s great vaccine heist
Jay Naidoo, like all good socialists, wants a ‘reset of our global humanity’. This time, he is spurred by the apparent injustice of ‘vaccine apartheid’.
Monidiot wants a planetary bailout
Radical green/socialist activist George Monbiot has made a short video describing the Covid-19 pandemic as ‘a symptom of a global economic system that is destroying
Government claims a vaccine monopoly after all
After furiously denying in a sworn affidavit that the government stood in the way of private sector procurement of Covid-19 vaccines, the medicine regulator has
Scaremongering about oil and gas drilling
Ominous warnings written by environmental activists are designed to whip up public opposition to oil and gas production off the South African coast. We should
Populist ‘buy local’ schemes depress the economy
President Cyril Ramaphosa is fully convinced of the economic merits of a ‘buy local’ programme. So was former US president Donald Trump, and an odium
Why do poverty and hunger persist?
Poverty and hunger appear to be persistent problems, and many people hold capitalism in general, and neoliberalism in particular, responsible for perpetuating them. This is
Vaccines: missed opportunities for DA and private sector
While the private sector timidly kowtows to the ANC, and the DA government in the Western Cape rolls over at the first sign of resistance,
Don’t cite Mercola at me, ever!
The quickest way to convince me to dismiss someone as ignorant is when they support their arguments with links to Joseph Mercola’s popular alternative health
How climate alarmists fuel climate denial
‘The end is nigh!’ is an age-old conceit of religious zealots and prophets of doom. Preaching apocalypse may comfort believers, but it isn’t very convincing