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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.
Autopsy reveals the British-South African corpse’s poisoning by microfinance, ‘development finance’ and corporate finance
An obituary for the ‘unacceptable face of capitalism’
The African country with by far the most advanced infrastructure and largest energy supply increasingly appears to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown, in its economic, ecological and electricity systems
An open, frank public discussion about the IMF’s regrettable history and current agenda is sorely needed
Imperial vultures and sub-imperial doves both turn away from economic carcass
Once again, a formidable burst of state brutality against Zimbabwe’s citizenry has left at least a dozen corpses, scores of serious injuries, mass arrests, internet suspension and a furious citizenry
Johannesburg – World Bank president Jim Kim is an ex-leftist who claims that in the mid-1990s he wanted to shut down the…
Now that a $170 billion foreign debt cliff looms
These sorts of Western+BRICS modes of super-exploitation exemplify the mineral, oil and gas looting underway across Africa