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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 derangement syndrome strikes SA media
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Sep 15, 2020
No matter what the DA does or says, you can be sure a chorus of journalists will declare it to be racist, to seek a
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In praise of smugglers
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Sep 8, 2020
The Covid-19 lockdown provided opportunities for enterprising people to circumvent the often irrational bans on everything from can openers to cigarettes. By doing so, they
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New regulations promise Apartheid-style censorship
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Sep 1, 2020
Regulations are soon to be promulgated to give effect to the provisions of the Film and Publications Act, which was amended last year. It will
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The tyranny of context-free numbers
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Aug 25, 2020
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,
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Eco-scaremongering: natural gas is ‘extremely flammable’
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Aug 18, 2020
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
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Stop patronising women
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Aug 11, 2020
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
The time for secession has arrived
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Aug 4, 2020
South Africa is taking on water, and nobody is bailing. It’s time to choose: get in a life raft, or go down with the ship.
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Covid-19 models are ‘Trojan horses for unstated interests and values’
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Jul 28, 2020
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
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Boeta Dippenaar is correct: all lives matter
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Jul 21, 2020
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
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Booze ban: rule by diktat
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Jul 14, 2020
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