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South African neoliberal state brutality was on display last week in the famous Soweto suburb of Kliptown – where the African National…
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 March 29 election in Zimbabwe is very likely to result in Robert Mugabe winning, by hook or by crook, a slim…
Sanitation occasionally needs our attention. Usually it’s when there’s a water shortage. Today it’s because toilet ("loo") technicians are having a major…
The Scam Called Carbon Trading From November 28, 2007
Amidst her welcome critique of the biofuel mania, Vandana Shiva’s ZNet commentary last month (December 13, 2007) also made this point:…
Congratulations are due Jacob Zuma – apparently far more Machiavellian than even his arch-opponent since 2005, Thabo Mbeki – and the tireless…
Eloquent sounds are reverberating into South Africa from faraway lands, and I don’t mean thuds from the Rugby World Cup, won by…
Internationally-known environmental activist Sajida Khan passed away on Sunday night, July 15, in her Durban home. Aged 55, she was suffering her…
Who thinks coming hostilities with Iran are about military, material and religio-ideological support for Shiite militias, or even construction of a nuclear…
A mixed message – combining celebration and autocritique – is in order, in the wake of the Nairobi World Social Forum. From…