Patrick Bond

Cyril’s industrial reboot will not drive economy to success

Analysis Patrick Bond & Lisa Thompson - 20 Feb 2020

The president disclosed a development U-turn but the Special Economic Zones and China’s carbon intensive interests are likely to prevail

The fable of SA’s special economic zones

Article Pamela Tsolekile de Wet, Lisa Thompson & Patrick Bond - 14 Feb 2020

The country is being pushed to develop more SEZs. But is this a viable strategy, given unemployment and ‘deglobalisation’?

As Bolsonaro incinerates the Amazon, urgent action is needed for climate justice

Article Mary Galvin & Patrick Bond - 5 Sep 2019

As South Africans, we must support the fight to save the Amazon, but also take a strong stand on environmental concerns that are closer to home

SA’s monetary policy needs a serious overhaul

Article Patrick Bond - 11 Jun 2019

Recent pronouncements by Lethuli House, and Ace Magashule in particular, merely muddied the waters

The triumph of Trumponomics

Article Patrick Bond - 22 Feb 2019

The budget serves the interests of the rich and powerful and punts crumbs for the poor as meaningful advances

Is Tito preparing an IMF financial parachute, now a $171bn foreign debt cliff looms?

Article Patrick Bond - 18 Dec 2018

The reason for the International Monetary Fund’s Christine Lagarde's visit to South Africa is unknown

Activists go for weakened mining

Article Patrick Bond - 16 Nov 2018

An international forum draws strength from worldwide protests against extraction

Mboweni misses the big picture

Article Patrick Bond - 26 Oct 2018

Global finance, procurement fraud and mega projects flash warnings

Salute to a giant African academic

Africa Patrick Bond - 17 Aug 2018

Samir Amin was a fearless scholar whose ideas will long outlive him

At Brics think tank, scholars get drunk on their own rhetoric

Article Patrick Bond - 30 May 2018

One of South Africa’s highest-profile intellectual vehicles appears to be a victim of drunken driving by scholars

A case of talk left, budget right

Article Patrick Bond - 23 Feb 2018

Let’s not fool ourselves: this is not a budget that’s friendly to the poor or the vulnerable

SA economist whose work went global wrote with a deep idealism

Article Patrick Bond - 23 Feb 2018

'Terreblanche wrote with a deep idealism in a country frequently with the highest levels of inequality'

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