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Soccer-loving cynics have long predicted problems now growing worse here in South Africa because of World Cup hosting duties: loss 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.
The World Cup begins this weekend here in South Africa, with the home team playing Mexico on Friday before 95,000 fans at…
On June 11, South Africans start partying like no time since liberation in April 1994, and of course it is a huge…
Fierce debating about United States climate justice (CJ) strategies and tactics on ZNet over the past couple of months leave us ready…
Before we get to some hot South African political economy and political ecology, first consider the psycho-socio-sexual-sporting context. For cultural reasons, President…
World-renowned political organizer and one of Africa’s most celebrated poets, Dennis Brutus, aged 85, died early on December 26 in Cape Town.…
[This is a reply to Robin Hahnel’s ZNet article “Has The Left Missed The Boat On Climate Change?” It is part of…
Dennis Brutus died at age 85 on December 26, battling cancer, climate change and capitalism. Poetry and Protest was the title of…
World-renowned political organizer and one of Africa’s most celebrated poets, Dennis Brutus, died early on December 26 in Cape Town, in his…
In Copenhagen, the world’s richest leaders continued their fiery fossil fuel party last Friday night, ignoring requests of global village neighbors to…