Ivo Vegter is an independent columnist, international speaker and author based in South Africa. Ivo writes and speaks on a wide range of economic, political, technology and environmental subjects from the perspective of individual liberty and free markets.
He is the author of Extreme Environment, a book about how environmental exaggeration harms emerging economies. It was published by Zebra Press, an imprint of Random House Struik. Read more.
He is an accomplished keynote speaker, as well as a conference chair. He has on several occasions been asked to debate controversial issues at public events or on broadcast forums
The EFF did it all for the Clicks
Critical Race Theory Rhetoric in the EFF
EEF serves as the Vanguard of the ANC
The government needs to get out of the Free Markets way
ANC "INTEGRITY COMMISSION" Oxymoron of the decade
The private sector is always more efficient than the public sector
The government does not create JOBS! They redistribute your tax
Government loves redistributing your wealth inefficiently
South Africa is pretty...But an economic DISASTER
We have been having a tax revolt for years
The entire BEE industry adds NOTHING of value only increased overheads and procurement costs for businesses
The EVIL TRINITY: BIG GOVERNMENT, BIG LABOR BIG BUSINESS
Government's recovery plan, based on the district development model, would turn South Africa into a command economy, and contains many contradictions.
SA might soon be contracting power stations built on ships to moor in its major harbours, to provide extra power to Eskom. Environmentalists are very worried that they won't require full environmental impact assessments.
The poor performance of the ANC government, especially during lockdown, has fired up talk about Western Cape secession. Would an independent Cape of Good Hope make sense?