Patrick Bond, Author at ZNetwork

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.

South Africa: Mass protests

By Patrick BondApril 29, 2017 Activism

On South Africa’s political left, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party dominated recent news by leading a mass march on President Jacob Zuma’s office in Pretoria

Demanding Zuma’s Resignation

By Patrick BondApril 13, 2017 Politics/Gov

ANC’s leadership called into question as Zuma’s corruption ridden Presidency is headed to an end, who will lead the country next?

South Africa labeled ‘junk’

By Patrick BondApril 7, 2017 Economy

Will Cabinet shake-up and credit rating downgrade shift ruling-party ideology?

BRICS Dashing Green-Developmental Hopes?

By Patrick BondMarch 30, 2017 Brazil

Will the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) bloc ever really challenge the world financial order? The BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) leadership is meeting…

In South Africa, entering stage left: Jacob Zuma’s ‘Radical Economic Transformation’ alternative factoids

By Patrick BondFebruary 13, 2017 Africa

South Africa’s two main warring political blocs – the forces of Fiscal Patronage (‘Zuptas!’ in local parlance, referring to the immigrant…

Tripping up Trumpism through global Boycott Divestment Sanctions

By Patrick BondJanuary 20, 2017 Activism

Certainly one way to test how powerful Trumpism may become, is to tackle it where its Achilles Heel stands out most – climate change – and with a well-tested strategy and tactics: BDS USA

Will Washington’s new pro-Moscow, anti-Beijing gang drive a wedge through the BRICS in 2017?

By Patrick BondJanuary 6, 2017 Brazil

Many societies’ resistance politics reflects a much broader, deeper capacity to link up than ever before: within the BRICS, the US and internationally

South Africa’s junk credit rating was avoided, but at the cost of junk analysis

By Patrick BondDecember 8, 2016 Economy

The only reasonable solution is progressive delinking from the circuits of world finance through which these agencies accumulate their unjustified power

South Africa’s deprivations and depravations revealed in Jacob Zuma’s meltdown

By Patrick BondNovember 4, 2016 Africa

The ongoing prolific protests by opposition parties, university students, communities and labour, remains on the horizon as the political dust refuses to settle

Marketing Wildlife

By Libby Lunstrum, Patrick Bond October 24, 2016 Commentary

There are similarly devastating impacts of markets, including not only worsening economic meltdowns (e.g. 1998, 2000-01, 2008) but also the ideology now known as the financialization of nature, which is based on the view that a market problem, like the threat of extinction posed by poachers, can be treated best with a market solution