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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

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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

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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'

Looting of Africa calls for action

Article Patrick Bond - 9 Feb 2018

Top-down regulatory measures come to naught, so the battle must be fought from the bottom up

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Only pressure on SA’s elites can ease university fee stress

Article Patrick Bond - 21 Oct 2015

Students' fight against high university fees could be taken beyond campuses, with the final battle fought at the national treasury and Reserve Bank.

Marxists plot new course for Mzansi

Article Patrick Bond - 25 Jun 2015

The friction between different schools of socialist thinking has produced more light than heat for South Africa.

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World Bank’s flawed report kicks SA’s poor in the teeth

Article Patrick Bond - 3 Dec 2014

The institution has failed to retract a document that neoliberal politicians and commentators are using to advocate state spending cuts.

Divestment will shake up climate policy paralysis

Analysis Patrick Bond - 12 Sep 2014

The window to halt runaway climate change is closing fast this decade, with world-wide emissions cuts of 50% needed by 2020, and 90% by 2050.

Climate change: The secrets of our collusion

Analysis Patrick Bond - 28 Aug 2014

The environment minister has cut funds to monitor climate change and contraventions, showing her tendency to collaborate with corporate power.

It’s class apartheid, stupid

Article Staff Reporter - 24 Apr 2008

Official data tell us that class apartheid, born in April 1994 with features that include durable racism and patriarchy, is now a malevolent juvenile delinquent.As with racial apartheid two decades ago, the chains of class apartheid have growing cracks and, with enough pressure from below, can also be broken.

Mbekism sophistrified

Article Staff Reporter - 17 Jul 2007

Is Ronald Suresh Roberts' <i>Fit to Govern</i> fit to defend Thabo Mbeki from (mainly) "illiberal" critics of different hues? Roberts has positioned himself as a radical nationalist, and unfortunately most critiques of his book to date presume he genuinely speaks from the left, writes Patrick Bond.

Whose Zimbabwe economy?

Article Staff Reporter & Patrick Bond - 3 May 2007

For the country's first post-Mugabe government, perhaps as early as next March if elite deal-making unfolds as promised, job number two, after restoring a semblance of democracy, is economic. Given the meltdown of Robert Mugabe's version of crony-statist-capitalism, the new model chosen will reverberate across the world.

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