Ivo Vegter | Free-market columnist and author

14 May 2013 Posted by Ivo's Marvellous Assistant

2013 Alan Paton Award Longlist

The Alan Paton Award is a South African literary award for meritorious works of non-fiction. The award is named for Alan Paton, author of Cry, The Beloved Country, and it is sponsored by the Sunday...

09 May 2013 Posted by Ivo's Marvellous Assistant

Electric cars: Taking from the poor to give to the rich

Fresh off the glorious vanguard duty that brought us the Business Licensing Bill, Red Rob Davies has hatched a new communist plot. This time, he wants to subsidise investment in electric cars. Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it, clearly.

01 May 2013 Posted by Ivo's Marvellous Assistant

Business Licensing Bill: An indefensible defence

Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies has taken to the media to defend the business licensing monstrosity he tabled in Parliament in March. He is wrong, on every single point.

22 Apr 2013 Posted by Ivo's Marvellous Assistant

Red-tape tourism

I heard a clever idea the other day. It has some warts, and needs some caveats, but it might just boost tourism, reduce bureaucratic burdens on citizens, and motivate civil servants, all at once: let suburbs and towns compete to become the “cut-red-tape” destination of choice for their provinces.

25 Mar 2013 Posted by Ivo's Marvellous Assistant

Debut of FrackNation in South Africa

After Ivo Vegter's Extreme Environment presentation, the audience were treated to the first South African screening of FrackNation.

19 Mar 2013 Posted by Ivo Vegter

Stop talking shit: Build your own toilet

I wonder when the government is coming to fix my fence. And replace the wiring for that light that doesn’t work. And repair my car. It’s so degrading to have to drive around with a busted bumper....

12 Mar 2013 Posted by Ivo's Marvellous Assistant

Climate change is pseudo-science

Strong headline, I know, but what climate scientists and their supporters have to say about would-be critics of a new study about the paleontological temperature record, demonstrates that the scientific method has been abandoned.

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Ivo Vegter is a columnist and the author of Extreme Environment, a book on environmental exaggeration and how it harms emerging economies. He approaches issues from the perspective of individual liberty and free markets.

He grew up in the deep south of Johannesburg, and learnt his politics reading the Weekly Mail and Vrye Weekblad at Wits University during the early years of the country's transition to democracy.

He recently left the city for the lower cost of living of Knysna, where he continues to write about everything under the sun.

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