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Perhaps the most spectacular is president Thabo Mbeki?s fight with his Alliance partners in the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu)…
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.
There are a great many surface-level political processes now unfolding in South Africa, reflecting underlying contradictions that are irreconcilable. Perhaps the most…
by Patrick Bond, Dennis Brutus and Virginia Setshedi What’s on offer for Africa from the trendy but top-down initiatives called Make Poverty…
Last month (April 15), David Moore and I wrote in ZNet about Zimbabwe’s March 31 election scam. On May 22, Johannesburg’s Sunday…
What just happened in Zimbabwe’s March 31 national parliamentary poll? Simply this: the urban poor and working-class were cheated. The rural poor…
Simply this: the urban poor and working-class were cheated. The rural poor were intimidated into supporting a government whose costs to them…
The 1200 anti-war/profit demonstrators who wound their way through central Johannesburg on Saturday heard fiery speeches, music and poetry. At the start…
Patrick Bond discusses the “Porto Alegre Manifesto” by a group of nineteen intellectuals at this year’s World Social Forum point by point.…
World financial volatility Patrick Bond Addis Ababa – When an Indian-based network of dissident economists – the International Development Economics Associates (http://www.networkideas.org)…
If you are like many aggrieved people I know, the prospect of the US economic empire stumbling, tripping, and maybe even crashing…