‘Africa Rising’ in Retreat – New Signs of Resistance
by Patrick Bond A few years ago, at the very moment that Africa’s GDP ceased its rapid 2002–11 increase, a profound myth t
African labour and social militancy, Marxist framing and revolutionary movement-building
By Patrick Bond, It is a great period to be a revolutionary activist in Africa. Yet the sense of stop-start progress and r
Patrick Bond on the harsh realities about South Africa that the World Bank dare not speak
By Patrick Bond The World Bank’s South Africa poverty line is $2.5/day, which was R15.75/day (R473/month) in 2011, the