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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Free citizens, or frightened subjects?
I am writing this on Monday 27 April 2020. This is the date every year on which we remember South Africa’s turn to democracy, and
The president’s speech – what we may be missing
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After the crisis: SA will need an ideological reset
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Food security: what is to be done?
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Farming in the shadow of a pandemic
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Has our reality really changed?
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Why policy on entrepreneurship needs to change
Discussion of South Africa’s economic fortunes invariably seems to default to our ability or otherwise to attract foreign investment. As important as this is –
Reform all the more urgent as SA faces coronavirus risks
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Trivial sums for land reform contradict government rhetoric
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