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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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In defence of (a sort of) nation building
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Mar 4, 2024
I read Martin van Staden’s latest column (‘From pact to pillar: The Multi-Party Charter after the 2024 election’, 29 February) with interest and attention. As
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Institutions – and the people who staff them
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Feb 26, 2024
Cadre deployment has featured strongly over the past week, with the handover by the ANC of documents from its deployment committee to the DA and
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Economic complexity: South Africa’s underappreciated challenge
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Feb 19, 2024
Economic complexity is a concept seldom heard in South Africa. It describes the capacity of a country to engage in various forms of activity, typically
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Reframing South Africa’s grand narrative
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Feb 12, 2024
The State of the Nation Address (SONA) gives the president an opportunity to expound on a range of issues, while post-SONA analyses have tended to
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Land, water and ‘transforming the relations’
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Feb 5, 2024
Pledging to resolve the ‘land question’ has been a perennial theme for the ANC. For the most part, this has been approached as a political
Our inescapable choice: ideology or growth
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Jan 29, 2024
It’s a bit of a cliché to say that the coming year will be decisive for South Africa. An environment of system crisis and increasingly
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Appeasement in advance
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Jan 22, 2024
Sports-mad South Africa has a voracious appetite for news of all types about the affairs of its pitches, courts, and fields, and an emotional response
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A perspective on Taiwan’s election
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Jan 13, 2024
The present year will be a momentous one for elections. Not only will South Africans be going to the polls, but so will around 2
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Chasing the White Whale: an epic moment in literature and a tawdry feat of character assassination
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Dec 30, 2023
This piece was first published in January. It’s doubtful that more than just a few South Africans, including those with a fondness for literature, will
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Is there a terrorist threat?
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Dec 18, 2023
I’ve said on numerous occasions – to whomever will listen, regardless of sympathies – that South Africa has nothing to offer in the resolution of