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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Business must accept responsibility
Studying the relationship between business and government is a pastime that occupies analysts the world over. The intersection between these two forms of power, one
Policy key to recovery
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Advancing women’s property rights should be a priority
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Business needs to stand up on SA’s ideological pathologies
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Budget shows just where land reform features in priorities
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Business must find its voice
Businesspeople are invariably practical people, and so the recent interest rate cut has been greeted by the real estate industry with enthusiasm. In a recent
Doing things differently – again, again, and again
South Africa’s leaders are given to invoking religion to explain or to justify themselves. As South Africans tend to see themselves as religious and God-fearing
Land invasions pose a serious threat to South Africa
With the imminent reconvening of the parliamentary committee on the amendment of the Constitution’s property clause, expropriation without compensation (EWC) is back in focus. In
Facing the apocalypse
There is something of an apocalyptic air in South Africa at the moment. Understand what that means, both in its etymology and popular association. An
EWC and the IMF loan – a red line for South Africa
An interesting headline appeared in the news the other day: ‘SA seeking IMF aid crosses a red line for the ANC’. A remarkable set of