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5 days ago | dailyfriend.co.za | 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.

1 week ago | dailyfriend.co.za | Ivo Vegter

A US court nixed “reciprocal” tariffs, as institutional checks and balances start to function against Trump’s imperious rule by emergency decree. When Trump returned to the Oval Office in January this year, he returned with an ambitious agenda. Many of his supporters pointed out that he had been president before, and it wasn’t so bad (even though it was, by many measures, and he had the worst average presidential approval rating in modern American history).

1 week ago | dailyfriend.co.za | Ivo Vegter

While the rest of the world eyes dominance in the fourth industrial revolution, Donald Trump is turning America’s clock back in an attempt to defeat woke ideology. Trump has a bone to pick with Harvard University, but Harvard isn’t having any of it. To punish it for its defiance, Trump has only one cudgel, and that is to withdraw government grant funding. This, the famed author of The Art of Extortion is more than willing to do.

1 week ago | dailyfriend.co.za | 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.

2 weeks ago | dailyfriend.co.za | Ivo Vegter

I often get questions about why I cover this thing, but not that thing, or why I write about international politics when there is so much to write about in South Africa. The question of what to write about is a question I have to answer to myself twice a week. There are, of course, a myriad of possible topics. Current events happen fast and furiously, both in South Africa and abroad. But I am not a news reporter. I write opinion.