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My favorite haunt, Zimbabwe, is the delight of aggressive bourgeois commentators, one of whom wrote a month ago about that country’s meltdown…
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.
Presented to the seminar on Life After Capitalism: Health ZNet at the World Social Forum Porto Alegre, Brazil – 25 January 2003…
Presented to the seminar on Life After Capitalism: Health ZNet at the World Social Forum Porto Alegre, Brazil – 25 January 2003…
Introduction: What’s wrong with South Africa’s primary city? The pages below are from the introductory and concluding chapters to Unsustainable South Africa,…
Introduction: Africa’s structural burdens When it comes to anti-capitalist resistance, the most economically-marginalized sites are amongst the most interesting. Not because the…
Johannesburg: Most ZNet readers will have heard of the November 8 arrest of former Symbionese Liberation Army fugitive, James Kilgore, known here…
Last week’s two-day national labour stayaway against the impending privatisation of South African electricity, telephones, water and transport services was only a…
For ninety years, we’ve waited to see the combined geographical and political implications of locating an urban bantustan in a small block…
For ninety years, we’ve waited to see the combined geographical and political implications of locating an urban bantustan in a small block…
How mature and unified must a broad Left front in a given city become before it establishes a coherent critique of, and…