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Patrick Bond is a professor of sociology at the University of Johannesburg.

File: US President Joe Biden shakes hands with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa during a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on September 16, 2022 in Washington, DC. The two leaders reaffirmed the importance of enduring partnership, and discussed their work together to address regional and global challenges. (Photo by Pete Marovich-Pool/Getty Images)

US imperialism puts strain on SA’s neutrality

Ramaphosa walks tightrope between conflicting interests over Ukraine-Russia conflict

The conversation on white monopoly capital is being extended to include corruption

Collars and ties mask the real white monopoly capitalism

Only mass civil action will hound this rogues’ gallery of corporate crooks out of town

Citizens occupied Church Square

Opposed to ‘Zuptas’ and ‘WMC’? Learn from SA’s history of anti-corporate resistance

Protest against corporate injustice remains one of South Africa’s greatest strengths.

Undermindset: President Jacob Zuma shares his party’s paranoia about agents provocateurs being responsible for local discontent

Brics is not all it’s cracked up to be

Zuma and his cohorts appear to have little understanding of the true nature of the troubled grouping.

Former president Jacob Zuma. (Reuters)

Falling BRICS endanger their citizens’ health, starting with Jacob Zuma

“I was poisoned and almost died just because South Africa joined Brics under my leadership,” Zuma told supporters in his native KwaZulu-Natal.

Non-Americans often ask me what it has been like to live through President Donald Trump’s administration after the heady years of Obama. The answer, for me, is complicated.
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WEF ditched democratic, inclusive pretences by facilitating new G20 privatisation

WEF-Africa’s tactic of providing invited spaces for oppressed people, versus disregard for those considered unworthy of being inside, is well-known.

The bloc’s new development bank seems to be working hand in hand with global institutions such as the World Bank. Photo: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters

Brics joins the reigning world order

Its pronouncements are meaningless, given the member nations’ proclivity to feed off one another.

Partners in music: Thandiswa Mazwai and Hugh Masekela performing at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival in 2012.

Zuma’s speech was full of ‘alternative facts’ rather than a reflection of reality

Jacob Zuma promised radical economic transformation in his 2017 Sona. A lot of what he said in support of this promise is alternative facts.

Then and now: Demonstrators outside the Scottish Parliament in 2012 after Donald Trump spoke of his concerns over a proposed wind farm. Photo: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

​Trump can be tripped by sanctions

The president-elect’s policies will rebound on the whole world but there is a way to hit back.

The Brics bloc’s relations could well destabilise to the break point.

The odds are stacked against the Brics

New alliances with Washington and internal leadership problems are some of the problems that could rock the bloc

“I use colour to disarm the viewer’’ — Athi-Patra Ruga

​Delinking offers SA some respite

Tighter capital controls could be the answer to the world’s most volatile currency.

Republican US presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks live via satellite from Trump Tower in New York City during the second session at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland

Trump’s isolationism: Threats and opportunities for Africa

Donald Trump’s unexpected victory in the US stunned many across the globe.

Pick ‘n Pay employees on strike demonstrate outside the Gardens’ store in Cape Town.

​Gordhan’s politics of divide-and-rule

It’s easy to see where the minister could raise money if he really wanted to ameliorate poverty.