Terence Corrigan
Terence Corrigan is the Project Manager at the Institute, where he specialises in work on property rights, as well as land and mining policy. A native of KwaZulu-Natal, he is a graduate of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (Pietermaritzburg). He has held various positions at the IRR, South African Institute of International Affairs, SBP (formerly the Small Business Project) and the Gauteng Legislature – as well as having taught English in Taiwan. He is a regular commentator in the South African media and his interests include African governance, land and agrarian issues, political culture and political thought, corporate governance, enterprise and business policy.
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Since Russian forces invaded Ukraine on 24 February, South Africa’s public conversation has been sputtering with incredulity at the position taken by its leaders on
The missing link in the ’Professionalisation’ drive
President Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address last month attracted a lot of attention for his novel remarks on the relative places of the state