Neo-liberals destructive power is behind the state’s financial crash

Patrick Bond|Published

Picture: Ayanda Ndamane / Independent Newspapers / February 21, 2024 – Minister of Finance, Mr Enoch Godongwana arrives ahead of his Budget Speech for 2024 to Parliament, ...

Ditching public-interest mandate cause of Eskom’s woes

Patrick Bond|Published

Picture: GCIS – As neoliberalism and New Public Management ideologies crowded out the Freedom Charter and Reconstruction and Development Programme in the early years ...

Messy Multipolarism

Patrick Bond|Published

Picture: ANA files / March 20, 2014 – Cellphone image showing members of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) marching against chronic HIV and Tuberculosis medicines ...

Oil Jabber heard in Dubai: Our top ten reasons to dismiss the Conference of Polluters 28

Patrick Bond and Desmond D'Sa|Published

Picture: Giuseppe Cacace / AFP / on December 12, 2023 – Climate activists hold hands together during a protest against fossil fuels during the United Nations Climate ...

Grant distribution failures foil ‘financial inclusion’

Patrick Bond and Opinion|Published

Picture: Oupa Mokoena/African News Agency (ANA)/Taken September 7, 2023 – Thousands of social grant recipients were unable to access their money due to intermittent ...

BRICS expansion may lead to shrinking of SA’s influence

Patrick Bond|Published

Picture: GCIS President Cyril Ramaphosa at bi-lateral discussions with his Brazilian counterpart, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, on the sidelines of the New ...

BRICS bloc’s de-dollarisation expectations may outstrip reality

Patrick Bond|Published

Picture: EPA – woman hold a US dollar. The world financial system appears to suffer periodic chaos because of the excessive power of the US dollar, the Fed and US ...

CR gambles on new electricity czar

Patrick Bond|Published

Picture: Phando Jikelo/African News Agency (ANA) – President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers the 2023 State of the Nation Address (SONA). Ramaphosa used the Sona mainly ...

SA’s Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s austerity measures hasten ‘Arab Spring’

Patrick Bond|Published

Picture: Phando Jikelo/African News Agency (ANA) - Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana delivers the Mid Term Budget Speech at the City Hall on October 26, 2022. ...