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If you are like many aggrieved people I know, the prospect of the US economic empire stumbling, tripping, and maybe even crashing…
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 Bank and International Monetary Fund’s annual meeting in Washington earlier this month witnessed the members’ rejection of two big ideas…
The 60th birthday of the Bretton Woods Institutions – the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) – will be formally celebrated…
By Patrick Bond Mutare, Zimbabwe – 22 July is a good day to consider problems caused by the rancid combination of…
Early last month, at the University of Wisconsin’s Havens Center – supported by Amsterdam’s Transnational Institute – radicals from ten countries came…
One of the great punchlines in politics I was fortunate to hear first-hand, was during a 1989 interview for Pacifica Radio with…
TEN YEARS ago, South Africa’s racist apartheid system was finally swept away with the country’s first democratic elections. African National Congress (ANC)…
One of South Africa’s most fascinating environments is the terrain leading from the eastern mountain range in Mpumalanga (‘land of the rising…
The leadership of one African country, Zimbabwe, still gets disproportionate demonisation from the West, for good and bad reasons. In addition to…
A rare activist-driven win for some of Africa’s wretchedly poor women, men and children leaves me humbled. In June 2002, I wrote…