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The only short-term solution is a radical tightening of exchange controls against corporations and wealthy individuals
Patrick Bond
Patrick Bond is a political economist, political ecologist and scholar of social mobilisation. From 2020-21 he was Professor at the Western Cape School of Government and from 2015-2019 was a Distinguished Professor of Political Economy at the University of the Witwatersrand School of Governance. From 2004 through mid-2016, he was Senior Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Built Environment and Development Studies and was also Director of the Centre for Civil Society. He has held visiting posts at a dozen universities and presented lectures at more than 100 others.
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A wedge is being quickly driven through Pretoria’s political elite
Subsidized white capitalists and oppressed activists are amongst those who must “not be named”
Brazil, Russia, India and China quietly step on African heads to get more IMF voting power, as one instance of the anti-Western rhetorical charade
The Chinese financial meltdown is another instance of the system’s core contradictions, but one potentially big enough to pull it all down
Is South Africa finally maturing to the point that the economic – not just political – compromises of the 1990s democratic transition can be reconsidered?
The country’s surface-level political drama should not distract from deeper fissures
Will Beijing amplify the neo-colonial patterns of extractive looting paved by Western capital?