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Do Pretoria and Johannesburg deserve the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah, cities along the ancient Jordan River which were, according to The Book…
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.
‘I don’t have the stomach or the taste to serve any more at this level,’ said the normally ebullient Minister of Intelligence…
Is the National Treasury, as a CityPress editorial claimed on 26 February, truly a “powerhouse of big brains and safe hands”, “a…
To be sure, it’s a difficult period for imposing new environmental taxes, given ongoing financial sector power over public policy. With the…
Durban — In 2007, former World Bank chief economist Nick Stern termed climate change the worst ‘market failure’ in history – since…
Durban – The latest acts in this country’s intensifying political drama include a sizzling summer-long battle between young and old within the…
With International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Christine Lagarde in Tunisia today, the stage is set for ideological war over the progress…
LAST winter, when carbon prices fell 15% in one week, industry analysts called it ‘carnage’. Then, in the fortnight before last month’s…
This is the South African city of Durban’s first week since 2002 without City Manager Michael Sutcliffe. He became well known across…
Looking back now that the dust has settled, South Africa’s COP17 presidency appears disastrous. This was confirmed not only by Durban’s delayed,…