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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Zondo Commission opens Overton Window on preferential procurement
The publication of the Report of the Zondo Commission – or to give it its full name, the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of
A very important moment
A court action under way before the Pretoria High Court highlights one of the issues on which South Africa’s very future depends. The case concerns
Reclaiming ‘the truth’
Thinking back on watching Oprah Winfrey’s controversial interview with ‘Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’ – as her website named them – something that has stuck
It’s not just about implementation
It comes up every so often, repeated like a national liturgy: South Africa has good policies, but poor implementation. The latest high-profile personality to make
A remarkable story that deserves attention
Amid the noise and fury around the theft of President Ramaphosa’s forex, the sacking of the Public Protector and the arrest of the Gupta brothers
More modest aspirations needed
South Africa needs a more ‘activist’ state, President Ramaphosa told a media briefing last week. State support had provided the country with one of its
Close to 100 – but nowhere near its sell-by date
1929: South Africa was a relatively new but established member of the international community. It had survived a number of extreme stresses, including participation in
Private property: overall, a good thing
For somewhat over a decade now, a theme in South Africa’s land politics has been whether a new system of landholding is necessary. This is
Musk or no Musk, Twitter is no place for democratic debate
For better or worse, I can’t say that Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter really interests me much. I’m not on Twitter, and I hope to
KwaZulu-Natal’s farmers face the floodwaters
‘Natuurramp is erger as menseramp.’ A natural disaster is worse than a human disaster. I remember these words from a news show prior to the