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Mining Indaba: South Africa and the Resource Curse

15 Feb 2013

Paul Jay of the Real News Network talks to Patrick Bond about the African Mining Indaba that took place in South Africa last week. Bond is the director of the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. While the nationalisation of mines is off the table, Bond argues that what we are seeing in South Africa is "an intensification of class and state capital struggles over mining."

Also watch this report for interesting remarks from Bond about the political prospects for Cyril Ramaphosa and Mamphela Ramphele.

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