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As the official South African judicial investigating commission into the Marikana Massacre draws to a close in 2012, with many weeks of…
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.
DURBAN – This week’s World Toilet Summit offers an opportunity to contemplate how we curate our crap. Increasingly the calculus seems to…
There is no political will among rich nations to find funding for developing countries experiencing the brunt of changes in global weather…
The heads of state of the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa BRICS network are coming to Durban in four months, meeting on 26-27 March at…
What did Hurricane Sandy teach us a week ago, here in South Africa, just as $30 billion of state funds is being…
When a ruling party in any African country sinks to the depths of allowing its police force to serve white-dominated multinational…
Address to the Muslim Youth Movement 40th Anniversary Conference, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, September 30, 2012. At a time when popular…
“One of the things you learn as an anthropologist, you don’t come in and change the culture,” Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim…
Zimbabwe’s political-economic crisis continues because dislodging decades of malgovernance has not been achieved by either a Government of National Unity that began…
The recent surge of unconnected community protests across South Africa confirms the country’s profound social, economic and environmental contradictions. But if activists…