

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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South Africa – best of “the rest”? (Part 1)
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Sep 9, 2024
In a recent column in the Financial Times, Ruchir Sharma discussed what has been referred to as “the rise of the rest”: the rapid development

Getting the public service back on track
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Sep 2, 2024
With the 2024 elections, South Africa entered what promises to be a new phase in its politics. The loss of the ANC’s absolute majority has

Deal with farming realities, not imaginaries
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Aug 26, 2024
In its short existence, the MK party has not been shy about courting controversy. It represents, in essence, a resentful, exclusionary brand of politics whose

Citizenship, agency, and (former) mayor Gwamanda: it’s not for children
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Aug 19, 2024
Last week, I wrote about competing conceptions of citizenship, and how this was expressed in the recent case of Chidimma Adetshina and her participation (or

Miss SA and two notions of citizenship
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Aug 12, 2024
I probably wouldn’t have known the Miss SA pageant was happening – just not my thing – had it not been for the noise around

Keep it in perspective
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Aug 5, 2024
Some years back, the accompanying photo did the rounds on Facebook – an image of a grotesquely oversized puff adder, captured or killed somewhere in

EWC and EWC redux
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Jul 29, 2024
President Cyril Ramaphosa and his detractors in the so-called “Progressive Caucus” sit on opposite sides of the parliamentary aisle, glaring at each other, even though

A goal for Gayton – and a win for the country
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Jul 22, 2024
Gayton McKenzie is a man able to stir strong emotions. According to perspective, he’s a strongman, a populist, a gangster, a xenophobe, an ethno-nationalist, or

GNU fails its first test
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Jul 15, 2024
I’ve made the point several times that while the Government of National Unity option was not my first choice, now that it’s a reality, I

Why lowering the temperature is important
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Jul 8, 2024
Anyone thinking that making the multi-party government work would be simple, would have been disabused by the events of the past few weeks. Leaked correspondence,