https://znetwork.org/author/patrickbond/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:37:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/patrickbond/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/south-africa-blocked-from-g20/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/south-africa-blocked-from-g20/#respond Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:37:35 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1292104 South Africa says it will step back from next year’s G20 meetings after the U.S. indicated it won’t extend an invitation, citing concerns over alleged discrimination against the white Afrikaner minority. In this episode, Innocent Semosa speaks to Political Analyst Patrick Bond to unpack the politics behind the fallout, and later connects with DIRCO spokesperson [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/south-africa-blocked-from-g20/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/like-south-africa-the-brics-suffer-from-trump-appeasement-syndrome/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/like-south-africa-the-brics-suffer-from-trump-appeasement-syndrome/#comments Sun, 30 Nov 2025 16:45:53 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291811 The U.S. now assumes leadership of the G20 until the Miami summit ends on December 15, 2026 – but not without having lost some crucial soft power. In the wake of Donald Trump’s farcical attacks on the host of last week’s G20 summit in Johannesburg, might the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (plus Egypt-Ethiopia-Indonesia-Iran-United Arab Emirates) BRICS bloc [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/like-south-africa-the-brics-suffer-from-trump-appeasement-syndrome/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/g20-cop30-and-more-mickey-mouse-multilateralism-to-come/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/g20-cop30-and-more-mickey-mouse-multilateralism-to-come/#respond Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:07:35 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291606 The third weekend in November offered the world two disastrous days for solving polycrisis problems, starting in the Brazilian Amazon city of Belém at the United Nations climate summit (‘COP30’) on November 22, just as South African President Cyril Ramaphosa hosted (most of) the Group of 20 leaders in Johannesburg. The G20 comprises 19 of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/g20-cop30-and-more-mickey-mouse-multilateralism-to-come/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/u-s-continues-campaign-to-undermine-south-africa-and-g20/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/u-s-continues-campaign-to-undermine-south-africa-and-g20/#respond Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:48:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1291452 Lester Kiewit speaks to Prof Patrick Bond, Director of the Centre for Social Change in the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Humanities at University of Johannesburg, about how the US continues to try to derail and undermine the G20 in South Africa.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/u-s-continues-campaign-to-undermine-south-africa-and-g20/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-manipulation-of-south-african-finances-from-an-imf-office-cubicle/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-manipulation-of-south-african-finances-from-an-imf-office-cubicle/#respond Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291199 Since February 19, a battle has raged over who pays taxes to Pretoria and for what, a technical and political fight about state finances that has never been so intense in post-apartheid history. The first victim was Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s desire to raise the Value Added Tax (VAT) on all consumers by 2%, to [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-manipulation-of-south-african-finances-from-an-imf-office-cubicle/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-western-financial-whip-was-just-lifted-from-south-africas-back-but-now-we-need-another/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-western-financial-whip-was-just-lifted-from-south-africas-back-but-now-we-need-another/#respond Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:37:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290534 The October 24 decision by the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to end the ‘grey list’ stigmatization against the banking systems of South Africa, Mozambique, Nigeria and Burkina Faso raises tough questions about these societies’ self-interest, in contrast to the real winners from the move: free-wheeling financiers of capital flight, of drugs and of (alleged) [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-western-financial-whip-was-just-lifted-from-south-africas-back-but-now-we-need-another/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-protest-no-kings-against-trump-policies/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-protest-no-kings-against-trump-policies/#respond Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290356 Elphas: Marcus Zahaba Online Radio, serving you wherever you are. Four minutes after 12 p.m. Central African time, welcome to the Tuesday edition of the News Hour right here on Marcus Zahaba Online Radio — the voice of Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama’at. My name is Alpha Simposi; it’s a great honor to be with you this afternoon. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-protest-no-kings-against-trump-policies/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palestine-solidarity-discussions-in-johannesburg-stress-ongoing-protest/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palestine-solidarity-discussions-in-johannesburg-stress-ongoing-protest/#respond Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:27:00 +0000 Will the Trump-Netanyahu deal at least pause the mass killing of Gazans? Maybe, and Gazans have every right to celebrate. But we have repeatedly learned how brief any reprieve in Israel’s genocidal attacks on Palestine can be. And as Hamas releases 20 living Israeli hostages and has no further internal leverage, can anyone trust Tel [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/palestine-solidarity-discussions-in-johannesburg-stress-ongoing-protest/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-liberatory-politics-of-amandla-awethu/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-liberatory-politics-of-amandla-awethu/#respond Sun, 28 Sep 2025 14:51:37 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1289186 An opening address to the International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs) Network Pre-G20 Conference: Towards a Needed Paradigm Shift in Economic Policy Redge Nkosi: Let me ask Professor Patrick Bond to come and reflect on this conference and the possible outcomes. Patrick: Redge, hang out here for a second. Dear visitors, dear friends. But you know, dear comrades. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-liberatory-politics-of-amandla-awethu/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/brics-meet-to-fight-trump-tariffs/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/brics-meet-to-fight-trump-tariffs/#respond Thu, 11 Sep 2025 15:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288418 Elphas Nkosi: It is now four minutes after 12 p.m. Central African time. Welcome to the Monday edition of the News Hour right here on Markus Zahaba Online Radio, my name is Elphas Nkosi. There’s an article written by Peter Bruce in the Sunday Times yesterday. We are very concerned as it appears that Pretoria [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/brics-meet-to-fight-trump-tariffs/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dispelling-the-multipolar-myth/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dispelling-the-multipolar-myth/#respond Sun, 07 Sep 2025 16:14:21 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288253 If the Western liberal political empire has been shamed beyond repair by the genocide in Palestine and the neoliberal project cannot be recovered (despite claims to inequality reduction, food security, or “climate action”, as proposed for the Johannesburg G20 summit in November) — what’s next? Expectations have recently risen for a revived “multipolarism”, partly because the BRICS [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dispelling-the-multipolar-myth/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/israel-crosses-the-rubicon-lessons-from-south-africa-with-patrick-bond/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/israel-crosses-the-rubicon-lessons-from-south-africa-with-patrick-bond/#respond Thu, 28 Aug 2025 15:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1287902 In this wide-ranging conversation, political economist Patrick Bond joins me from Johannesburg to trace the lessons of South Africa’s struggles — from the fight against apartheid and Big Pharma to today’s battles over BRICS, Palestine, climate, and global capital. We dig into the meaning of “sub-imperialism,” the hypocrisies of governments that talk left but walk [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/israel-crosses-the-rubicon-lessons-from-south-africa-with-patrick-bond/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/stop-south-african-coal-exports-to-genocidal-apartheid-israel/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/stop-south-african-coal-exports-to-genocidal-apartheid-israel/#respond Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287593 The case for the South African government to respect Boycott Divestment Sanctions and ‘Hague Group’ mandates against Glencore/ARM exports and all other fuel supplies to Israel South African coal exports to Israel since the genocide of Palestinians have reached 1.5 million tonnes by mid-2025. These shipments mean Pretoria is now saying, in effect, “Hague Shmague” [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/stop-south-african-coal-exports-to-genocidal-apartheid-israel/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/anc-nec-meeting-us-tariffs-gnu-brics-trade-relations/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/anc-nec-meeting-us-tariffs-gnu-brics-trade-relations/#respond Mon, 04 Aug 2025 15:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1286928 SABC: The ANC says it is happy with the case made by the South African delegation led by President Cyril Ramaphosa to the US in May this year. This is despite the team failing to convince the US administration to lower its proposed tariffs against Pretoria. The Donald Trump administration has slapped South African goods [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/anc-nec-meeting-us-tariffs-gnu-brics-trade-relations/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/massive-us-eu-trade-pact-signed/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/massive-us-eu-trade-pact-signed/#respond Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1286793 n a surprise deal struck in Scotland, the United States and European Union have agreed to a 15% tariff on key European exports and a $750-billion EU commitment to buy American energy. Political economist Prof. Patrick Bond weighs in on the economic and geopolitical impact of the agreement. Newzroom Afrika: The United States and the European [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/massive-us-eu-trade-pact-signed/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/patrick-bonds-letter-to-department-of-mineral-and-petroleum-resources-trans-hex-and-srk/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/patrick-bonds-letter-to-department-of-mineral-and-petroleum-resources-trans-hex-and-srk/#respond Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:49:00 +0000 Date: 14 July 2025  To: Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources, Trans Hex and SRK – [email protected] Subject: Objection to off-shore Prospecting Application, near Lepelsfontein and Doringbaai,  DMPE ref no.: WC30/5/1/1/2/1047PR – Diamond Mining Rights in Marine Concession Areas  11B and 13B, West Coast, South Africa  SUMMARY: Please consider this a critique of Trans Hex [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/patrick-bonds-letter-to-department-of-mineral-and-petroleum-resources-trans-hex-and-srk/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/real-and-fake-antidotes-to-trumps-latest-tariffs-seen-from-south-africa/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/real-and-fake-antidotes-to-trumps-latest-tariffs-seen-from-south-africa/#respond Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1286077 U.S. President Donald Trump apparently aims to reassert his power to cause a full-blown economic catastrophe, perhaps reminiscent of 1930s-scale Make America Great Depression Again. The self-harm to his own MAGA lower-middle-class social base – especially consumers of cheap imports – will soon become evident when price inflation rises.  But since Trump hit South Africa [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/real-and-fake-antidotes-to-trumps-latest-tariffs-seen-from-south-africa/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/at-the-rio-summit-signs-of-brics-in-retreat-just-when-we-need-serious-anti-imperial-muscle/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/at-the-rio-summit-signs-of-brics-in-retreat-just-when-we-need-serious-anti-imperial-muscle/#respond Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:01:47 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1285773 On Sunday-Monday, July 6-7, leaders from the BRICS countries will meet in Rio de Janeiro for their annual summit. Because Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will also host the UN annual climate summit in December, the BRICS event was pushed relatively early. That means the bloc’s work schedule has been curtailed, even in [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/at-the-rio-summit-signs-of-brics-in-retreat-just-when-we-need-serious-anti-imperial-muscle/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/climate-sanctions-against-fossil-addicted-capitalists/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/climate-sanctions-against-fossil-addicted-capitalists/#respond Thu, 15 May 2025 15:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283754 The implications of climate-unjust politics are ever more important to interpret and resist. United States President Donald Trump, an unabashed ‘climate denialist’, withdrew his country, the main historic emitter of greenhouse gases, from United Nations negotiations, and should now be sanctioned. But annual UN COPs (Conferences of the Parties) won’t, because the ‘climate action’ approach [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/climate-sanctions-against-fossil-addicted-capitalists/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/brics-nations-and-israel-hype-hope-and-helplessness/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/brics-nations-and-israel-hype-hope-and-helplessness/#respond Sat, 10 May 2025 15:28:01 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1283582 Prof. Patrick Bond sat down with the MRN to offer insights into the reality behind the rhetoric on Israel. He explains the deep-seated links between the SA elite ruling class and corporate business and how this impacts on SA’s moral stance on Palestine. Prof. Bond also talks about the ecological links in the social justice [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/brics-nations-and-israel-hype-hope-and-helplessness/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/trumps-tariffs-trade-war-on-south-africa-the-working-class-with-patrick-bond/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/trumps-tariffs-trade-war-on-south-africa-the-working-class-with-patrick-bond/#respond Thu, 01 May 2025 15:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1283226 The imposition of tariffs on countries around the world has had a major impact on South Africa and many other countries in Africa. University of Johannesburg political economist Patrick Bond discusses the role of the Trump and Musk In South Africa.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/trumps-tariffs-trade-war-on-south-africa-the-working-class-with-patrick-bond/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/both-the-brics-and-bandung-revivalism-need-tough-critiques-not-quasi-cults/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/both-the-brics-and-bandung-revivalism-need-tough-critiques-not-quasi-cults/#respond Tue, 22 Apr 2025 16:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1282831 How to interpret these inspiring words, by one of the most eloquent, prolific exponents of Global South politics and economic development, Vijay Prashad? The New Bandung Spirit is about Industrial Development “… The original [BRICS] members – Brazil, China, India, Russia, and South Africa – came together in 2009 in response to the US housing [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/both-the-brics-and-bandung-revivalism-need-tough-critiques-not-quasi-cults/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-tariffs-seen-from-contradictory-angles/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-tariffs-seen-from-contradictory-angles/#respond Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1282160 Donald Trump’s paleo-conservative, isolationist attack on global capitalist trade is already having formidable impacts. If tariff levels and targeted announced on ‘Liberation Day,’ April 2, are sustained, a full-blown economic catastrophe could result, perhaps reminiscent of 1930s-scale Make America Great Depression Again. Transactional Trump The worst danger: national elites in victim countries will be divided-and-conquered. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-tariffs-seen-from-contradictory-angles/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/washington-pretoria-power-spasms-part-1-the-ambassadors-trauma/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/washington-pretoria-power-spasms-part-1-the-ambassadors-trauma/#respond Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1281505 Heads continue to turn northwestwards, here in South Africa. Eyes and ears are carefully tuned not only to the latest X.com and TruthSocial dispatches from Donald Trump’s White House, Mario Rubio’s State Department and Elon Musk’s overstressed brain. They’ve proven to the Pretoria government in recent days, not only that the most basic of diplomatic [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/washington-pretoria-power-spasms-part-1-the-ambassadors-trauma/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/south-african-ambassadors-ouster-highlights-u-s-diplomatic-bullying/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/south-african-ambassadors-ouster-highlights-u-s-diplomatic-bullying/#respond Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:51:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1281308 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/south-african-ambassadors-ouster-highlights-u-s-diplomatic-bullying/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-south-africas-coal-exports-to-israel-undermines-its-palestine-solidarity-patrick-bond-pt-2-2/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-south-africas-coal-exports-to-israel-undermines-its-palestine-solidarity-patrick-bond-pt-2-2/#respond Thu, 06 Mar 2025 16:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1280640 In part two, political economist Patrick Bond outlines the activities of Glencore and other South African energy corporations which continue to ship coal to Israel’s electricity grid. Despite the historic efforts of South Africa to bring a genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, as well as its involvement in the Hague [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-south-africas-coal-exports-to-israel-undermines-its-palestine-solidarity-patrick-bond-pt-2-2/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-capitalism-pillages-the-planet-and-creates-chaos-patrick-bond/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-capitalism-pillages-the-planet-and-creates-chaos-patrick-bond/#respond Thu, 27 Feb 2025 16:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1280316 Following decades of ongoing mineral extraction, environmental plunder, and the subsidization of the fossil fuel industry, the second Trump administration’s aggressive pro-drilling agenda unapologetically seeks to seize as many foreign and domestic minerals and dirty energy sources as possible. Patrick Bond, political economist and Director of the Centre for Social Change in Johannesburg, discusses the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-capitalism-pillages-the-planet-and-creates-chaos-patrick-bond/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/u-s-rulers-versus-south-african-rulers-versus-both-their-peoples-and-ecologies/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/u-s-rulers-versus-south-african-rulers-versus-both-their-peoples-and-ecologies/#respond Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:42:44 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1279867 Surviving the Washington vs Pretoria diplomatic storm – which is increasingly beyond the protagonists on each side to manage given the lack of cool heads in U.S. President Donald Trump’s maniacal regime – will entail one of three routes forward: The South African government is at a fork, not sure whether to choose the second [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/u-s-rulers-versus-south-african-rulers-versus-both-their-peoples-and-ecologies/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/multipolar-mythmaking-mixing-western-degeneracy-and-brics-expansion-chaos/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/multipolar-mythmaking-mixing-western-degeneracy-and-brics-expansion-chaos/#respond Mon, 13 Jan 2025 15:45:47 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1278348 Early 2025 is already a tough time for those expecting the consolidation of a multipolar alternative to polycrisis-riddled, Western-dominated, neoliberal multilateralism. It was especially dispiriting given the hype – or at least hope – invested by many geopolitical dissidents in the fast-growing BRICS grouping. What began as Brazil-Russia-India-China in 2006, added South Africa in 2010 [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/multipolar-mythmaking-mixing-western-degeneracy-and-brics-expansion-chaos/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-south-africa-to-syria-rising-perils-for-palestine-solidarity/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-south-africa-to-syria-rising-perils-for-palestine-solidarity/#respond Tue, 10 Dec 2024 17:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1276909 The sudden regime overthrow in Syria and the long-delayed opportunity to confront the legacy of Bashar al-Assad’s tyranny are either being celebrated or condemned, as explored below, but they come at a time that poses profound problems for solidarity with Palestine. In Johannesburg, these problems are particularly acute given contradictions exposed last week. There was [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-south-africa-to-syria-rising-perils-for-palestine-solidarity/feed/ 0