Seminar: Patrick Bond ‘Marikana narratives and South African Political Economy’

Location: Conference Auditorium 2

Professor Patrick Bond will be coming from the University of KwaZulu Natal to discuss the massacre of South African mineworkers at the Marikana mine this summer. He will be talking about the broader implications that this incident, and the wave of strikes currently sweeping the country, will have for South Africa’s political future.

The event is hosted by POLIS International Development Research Group - contact Dr Alex Beresford, a.beresford@leeds.ac.uk

Patrick Bond was also the Keynote Speaker for the University of Leeds conference 'Democratization in Africa' hosted by POLIS and LUCAS in December 2009

From the website of University of KwaZulu-Natal, http://sds.ukzn.ac.za/default.php?2,4,35,4,0:

Patrick Bond is a political economist with longstanding research interests and NGO work in urban communities and with global justice movements in several countries. He teaches political economy and eco-social policy, directs the Centre for Civil Society and is involved in research on economic justice, geopolitics, climate, energy and water. In service to the new South African government, Patrick authored/edited more than a dozen policy papers from 1994-2002, including the Reconstruction and Development Programme and the RDP White Paper, and he taught at the University of the Witwatersrand Graduate School of Public and Development Management from 1997-2004. Patrick currently also serves as a visiting professor at Gyeongsang National University Institute of Social Sciences, South Korea.