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CANCUN, MEXICO. The December 11 closure of the 16th Conference of the Parties – the global climate summit – in balmy Cancun…
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.
The stench of rotting blubber would hang for days over The Bluff in South Durban, thanks to Norwegian immigrants whose harpooning skills…
The power and reach of financial institutions, not to mention the resulting superprofits, are the source of widespread, often extreme frustration. Industrialists,…
If leaders of a little African country stand up with confidence to imperialist aggression, especially from the US and Britain, that would…
On a full-day drive through the Jordan Valley late last month, we skirted the earth’s oldest city and the lowest inhabited point,…
Last week’s meeting of national leaders at the United Nations was predictable: more posturing about unmet global needs in relation to the…
The two major civil service unions on strike against the South African government vow to intensify pressure in coming days, in a…
The continent’s own elites, together with the West and now China are still making Africans progressively poorer, thanks to the extraction of…
Durban – Shortly before Pretoria’s presidential power change from Thabo Mbeki to Jacob Zuma two years ago, the South African state announced…
Giuliano Martiniello, Patrick Bond and Samantha Sencer-Mura detained by Durban police, July 2 Acting against our alleged ‘ambush marketing’ and ‘incitement’ (sic),…