Patrick Bond is the Director of the Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa (
http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs) and works with social movements there, in Zimbabwe and internationally. Recent books include
Fanon’s Warning: A Civil Society Reader on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2nd edn, 2005);
Elite Transition (2nd edn forthcoming from Pluto Press);
Talk Left, Walk Right: South Africa’s Frustrated Global Reforms (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2004) and
Against Global Apartheid (Zed Books).