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The imposition of tariffs on countries around the world has had a major impact on South Africa and many other countries in…
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.
How to interpret these inspiring words, by one of the most eloquent, prolific exponents of Global South politics and economic development, Vijay…
Donald Trump’s paleo-conservative, isolationist attack on global capitalist trade is already having formidable impacts. If tariff levels and targeted announced on ‘Liberation…
Heads continue to turn northwestwards, here in South Africa. Eyes and ears are carefully tuned not only to the latest X.com and…
The expulsion of South Africa’s ambassador to the United States highlights “diplomatic bullying” by the new U.S. administration, which should be opposed…
In part two, political economist Patrick Bond outlines the activities of Glencore and other South African energy corporations which continue to ship…
Following decades of ongoing mineral extraction, environmental plunder, and the subsidization of the fossil fuel industry, the second Trump administration’s aggressive pro-drilling…
Surviving the Washington vs Pretoria diplomatic storm – which is increasingly beyond the protagonists on each side to manage given the lack…
Early 2025 is already a tough time for those expecting the consolidation of a multipolar alternative to polycrisis-riddled, Western-dominated, neoliberal multilateralism. It…
The sudden regime overthrow in Syria and the long-delayed opportunity to confront the legacy of Bashar al-Assad’s tyranny are either being celebrated…