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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.
On August 15, the Ecuadorian president, Rafael Correa, announced that he is abandoning plans for an internationally funded conservation program for the Yasuni…
The northern hemisphere summer has just peaked and though the torrid heat is now ebbing, it is evident the climate crisis is…
Barack Obama’s weekend trip to South Africa may have the desired effect of slowing the geopolitical realignment of Pretoria to the Brazil-India-Russia-China-SA…
DURBAN – Over the last fortnight, Brazil’s two million street protesters in 80 cities supporting the Free Fare Movement have declared how…
Thanks are due to an odd man, the brutally-frank Zambian vice president Guy Scott who last week pronounced, “I dislike South…
‘We reaffirm the character of the ANC as a disciplined force of the left, a multi-class mass movement and an internationalist movement…
DURBAN – The reach of the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) leaders far up the African continent was palpable this week, not just here…
As they meet in Durban on March 26-27, leaders of the Brics countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa –…
In Durban, South Africa, five heads of state meet on March 26-27 2013 at the International Convention Centre, to assure the rest…