Patrick Bond

Over the quiet holiday season, the front pages of Durban’s newspapers screamed out again and again about the diesel spill in the upmarket, traditionally-white suburb of Hillcrest.

An impression is forming that the South African government is hostile to global business thanks to its recent cancellation of a few bilateral investment treaties (BITs).

“South Africa is achieving a sizable reduction in poverty and inequality through its fiscal tools.” This was the main

The biggest credibility crisis ever to hit South Africa’s independent media unfolded last week.

Is age 70 a dignified time for retirement, especially for policies and practices long considered destructive but now back in official favour at the World Bank?

The world’s largest-ever march against climate change last month brought 400,000 people to the streets of New York, starting a lively parade at Central Park.

Still, each project must provide convincing EIAs to move ahead.

The movement from below to tackle climate change is gathering pace in South Africa, and elsewhere in the world, in advance of the September 21 mass march against the United Nations.

What, ultimately, was the importance of the Africa-US Leaders Summit at the White House early last month?

Horace Campbell is a superb analyst but occasionally – like all of us – he gets things wrong: ‘the BRICS formation will not succumb to the International Monetary Fund and the conditionalities of the IMF...