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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Black markets in booze and cigarettes are thriving
South Africans are making their own alcohol, and the black market in cigarettes is making outrageous profits. Government says that its reasoning for not permitting
Why the secrecy? SA lockdown and UK’s buggy Covid-19 model
Imperial College London’s epidemiology model, on which Britain and many other countries based their lockdown decisions, has come under scathing criticism for being buggy and
Government is not immune to the fake news infodemic
There’s a plague of fake news surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic which occasionally has deadly consequences. Banning fake news, however, is hardly a solution, since governments,
Cozying up to the commies
To while away the lockdown, President Cyril Ramaphosa has been dabbling in long-distance international diplomacy. His most brotherly love was reserved for his fellow communists,
Coronavirus likely much less of a killer than expected
Since the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak, we’ve been hearing all about the case fatality rate of the disease, which in some countries, including the
The World Health Organisation has grown fat, authoritarian and ineffective
We once lived in a world in which the World Health Organisation (WHO) could brag of great successes, such as the eradication of smallpox. In
Prohibitions don’t work, and should be lifted
In South Africa and around the world, officials of a prohibitionist mindset exploited the Covid-19 emergency regulations to institute bans on their pet peeves, notably
Behind every silver lining is a dark cloud
The world is awash in stories about the silver linings to the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent economic lockdown. The problem with seeing silver linings is
Ramaphosa may be destroying the economy for nothing
Cyril Ramaphosa believes a Chinese-style lockdown to be both effective and necessary. For all his infatuation with the Chinese surveillance state, however, South Africa does
How meekly and fearfully we march into totalitarianism
At the first sign that a novel coronavirus was infecting people around the world, the South African government, taking its lead from China, began to