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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For more than a decade the Institute of Race Relations has fought a dogged defence of property rights in South Africa. Through interminable public debates,
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Will business live up to its responsibilities?
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Tax and the broken social contract
Last year, the SA Revenue Service put out an advert to the country’s taxpayers. Against the background of footage meant to invoke the Covid-19 pandemic,
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Amerika was one of the more evocative television events of the later 1980s. Originally broadcast over seven nights in 1987, it depicted life in the
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There is no trade-off between land reform and agricultural production and productivity. This was the message from President Cyril Ramaphosa in the debate on the
It’s not a question of narrative
One of the excellent points made by Brian Pottinger in his 2009 book, The Mbeki Legacy, relates to the palpable frustration felt by South Africa’s
Cuba and SA: A complex web of loyalties and commitments
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