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Commentary Bond: ÒNepad, no thanks,Ó say African progressives

Commentary, June, 22 2002 Patrick Bond
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South African president Thabo Mbeki made the cover page of the international edition of Time magazine in early June, with the misleading heading: `He has finally faced up to the AIDS crisis and is now leading the charge for a new African developme...

Commentary Bond: “Nepad, no thanks,” say African progressives

Commentary, June, 22 2002 Patrick Bond
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South African president Thabo Mbeki made the cover page of the international edition of Time magazine in early June, with the misleading heading: `He has finally faced up to the AIDS crisis and is now leading the charge for a new African developme...

Znet Article Bond: NEPAD

Znet Article, June, 20 2002 Patrick Bond
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South African president Thabo Mbeki made the cover page of the international edition of Time magazine in early June, with the misleading heading: `He has finally faced up to the AIDS crisis and is now leading the charge for a new African developme...

Commentary Bond: Moderates Wilt But Radical South Africans Struggle On

Commentary, April, 19 2002 Patrick Bond
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"Breaking with some of its anti-globalization allies, the aid agency Oxfam International issued a report yesterday that praised international trade as a potentially enormous boon to the world's poor... `The extreme element of the anti-globalizatio...

Commentary Bond: Zimbabwe's Rip-Off Poll

Commentary, March, 17 2002 Patrick Bond
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Report and analysis of the election in Zimbabwe.

Znet Article Bond: Zimbabwe's Ripoff Poll

Znet Article, March, 15 2002 Patrick Bond
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By a vote of 1.69 million for Robert Mugabe to 1.28 million for Morgan Tsvangirai, the people of Zimbabwe re-elected the Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu) president last weekend. The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), founded in September ...

Znet Article Bond: Thabo Mbeki addresses his compatriots

Znet Article, February, 18 2002 Patrick Bond
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South African president Thabo Mbeki's opening of parliament on February 8 was eagerly awaited, and began with a grand motif: "The global struggle to eradicate poverty and underdevelopment is fundamental to the well-being of human society."Mbeki's ...

Commentary Bond: Thabo Mbeki addresses his compatriots

Commentary, February, 18 2002 Patrick Bond
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South African president Thabo Mbeki's opening of parliament on February 8 was eagerly awaited, and began with a grand motif: "The global struggle to eradicate poverty and underdevelopment is fundamental to the well-being of human society."

Commentary Bond: Zimbabwe: On the brink of change, or of a coup?

Commentary, February, 01 2002 Patrick Bond
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Here comes the most fascinating election of 2002: Robert Mugabe, who led Zimbabwe through guerrilla war to liberation from Rhodesian colonists in 1980, facing a presidential vote in March where the challenger is Morgan Tsvangirai, who led the Zimb...

Commentary Bond: Momentum Returns to the Movements against Corporate Globalisation

Commentary, December, 17 2001 Patrick Bond
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I was glad to see Mokhiber/Weissman writing for ZNet last week on the durability of the anti-neoliberal movement. Here in Johannesburg, September 11 came and went, with linkages made between the Left peace movement's urgent agenda--anti-war demons...

Commentary Bond: Interpreting Thabo Mbeki's various African initiatives

Commentary, November, 18 2001 Patrick Bond
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Thabo Mbeki's speech last Saturday morning at the UN is the highest-profile opportunity yet for the South African leader to plead for a permanent Security Council seat for Africa. He's already been told that two seats--his first prize (presumably ...

Commentary Bond: Blue Planet targets PRIVATE commodification of world's water

Commentary, July, 28 2001 Patrick Bond
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The July 5-8 "Blue Planet" conference in Vancouver opened with a call by Maude Barlow to promote "a global water revolution. This is the first of many international civil society meetings to take back control of our water." The host Council of Can...

Commentary Bond: ÒSustainable" South Africa?

Commentary, July, 12 2001 Patrick Bond
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In South Africa, three interesting processes related to "sustainable development"--that ghastly phrase, denoting an allegedly more eco-friendly capitalism, often with a few "polluter-pays" regulations and social safety- net provisions added to ort...

Commentary Bond: “Sustainable" South Africa?

Commentary, July, 12 2001 Patrick Bond
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In South Africa, three interesting processes related to "sustainable development"--that ghastly phrase, denoting an allegedly more eco-friendly capitalism, often with a few "polluter-pays" regulations and social safety- net provisions added to ort...

Zmag Article Bond: Zimbabwe Lurches Toward a Pauper's Burial

Zmag Article, July, 01 2001 Patrick Bond
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Zimbabwe Lurches Toward a Pauper's Burial

Commentary Bond: Ghana's hydro-class struggles

Commentary, May, 23 2001 Patrick Bond
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ACCRA -- Notwithstanding the horrific soccer stadium disaster in which at least 165 people were killed in a police-incited stampede on May 9, the past week offered signs of genuine hope in Ghana.

Commentary Bond: The World Bank in the time of cholera

Commentary, April, 13 2001 Patrick Bond
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One of the most painful preventable diseases known to humankind, cholera, continues to spread in South Africa, affecting hundreds of people a day. More than 80,000 people have been infected over the last eight months, and approximately 180 have lo...

Commentary Bond: Globalization from Below

Commentary, April, 05 2001 Patrick Bond
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In the year since Seattle, the movement for global economic justice has shown that it's here to stay. It has staged three national demonstrations against the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the one-party system controlled by corpo...

Commentary Bond: Globalization from Below

Commentary, March, 18 2001 Patrick Bond
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(Review of `Globalization from Below: The Power of Solidarity,' by Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello and Brendan Smith, Cambridge, MA, South End Press.) There are more than a dozen new english- language books aimed mainly at an audience of internation...

Commentary Bond: Welcome to Jo'burg

Commentary, January, 26 2001 Patrick Bond
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If you had a choice, which host city would you choose for Rio+10, a.k.a. the 2002 `World Summit on Sustainable Development,' where 60,000 delegates will jawjaw about social and environmental problems, maybe in the process constructing more bits of...

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