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The recent surge of unconnected community protests across South Africa confirms the country’s profound social, economic and environmental contradictions. But if activists…
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.
RIO DE JANEIRO – Given the worsening world economic crisis, the turn to ‘Green Economy’ rhetoric looms as a potential saviour for…
Near the Dulles International Airport west of Washington last weekend, I found myself a couple of dozen meters away from a formidable…
The debate over the Green Economy rages on next month in Rio de Janeiro, at the International Society for Ecological Economics meetings, the Cupulo…
One of South Africa’s largest tertiary institutions, the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in Durban, is a site of multiple controversy but a…
Bisasar Road is Africa’s largest landfill site, and one of only three landfill sites in Durban with a full permit. It was…
Just before last weekend’s meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) board in Washington, South Africa's finance minister dropped…
Patrick Bond is the Director of the Center for Civil Society and Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Bond is…
In coming days, the World Bank will have a new president. Smart money backs Barack Obama’s choice: Dartmouth College president Jim Yong…
Promise-breaking at the World Bank, Part 1: Before That 66th birthday month of his, March 2012, was auspicious for adding a little…