BRICS expansion may lead to shrinking of SA’s influence
OPINION: There is a logic here, insofar as BRICS+ expansion plans create a dialectic: diluted power to the existing five countries, especially the weakest, South Africa.
Godongwana’s austerity measures hasten ‘Arab Spring’
OPINION: The fallout from Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s austere, medium-term budget on October 26 is likely to be severe, writes Prof Patrick Bond.
BRICS ‘struggling to fashion coherent action’
The BRICS bloc is slowly being written off as a group that can administer coherent political action, writes Patrick Bond.
Why SA should undo Mandela’s economic ideals
Neo-liberal compromises failed the society, economy and natural environment, writes Patrick Bond.
‘Spend on the poor, not flaky projects’
The government can redirect funds from unnecessary infrastructure to ensure social progress, writes Patrick Bond.
Conservation as a global commodity
Given the worsening world economic crisis, the turn to “green economy” rhetoric looms as a potential saviour, enormously welcome to certain stressed corporations panicking at market chaos in the topsy-turvy fos
Paranoia as world ideologies clash
Africa does not feature in regions that Bilderberger organisers regard as important, judging by those invited
Intrigued by ex-spy chief’s somersault
A great proponent of the arms deal in the 1990s, Ronnie Kasrils is now singing a different tune, bashing Secrecy Bill at every turn
The myth of Manuel’s wizardry
The world’s most predatory financial institution had until last Thursday a managing director nicknamed “The Seducer”, who talked left, evoking John Maynard Keynes, and walked right, imposing austerity on