Ivo Vegter

Every day, we get an update on Covid-19 cases and deaths. Or we hear about police having confiscated this many items of contraband. Without context,

An environmental writer has got himself in a tizzy over the prospect that Eskom might contract floating, gas-fuelled ‘power ships’ to augment Eskom’s stuttering power

Each Women’s Day, the usual suspects go on about how terrible it is that women are victims of what they term ‘gender-based’ violence. Then they

South Africa’s epidemiological models have proven to be wildly inaccurate. A new commentary by international modellers explains why Covid-19 models are a poor basis for

The Black Lives Matter movement is about a lot more than its name implies. Even on the surface, however, its key premise is not supported

With a wave of his presidential hand, the command was given: alcohol sales will once again be banned, with immediate effect. Minutes later, the new

The Democratic Alliance published a leaked government paper that says ‘the current crisis … offers an opportunity for the macro reorganization of the state’. Intended

In a grudging concession to ‘the libertarians’, to whom he attributes the slow easing of the coronavirus lockdown, Ismail Lagardien reveals much about the gulf

The National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) need not wait for rulings to be delivered in the two cases before the court hoping to end the