Director del Centre for Civil Society, en la University of KwaZulu-Natal, School of Development Studies.
Entre los libros escritos y coeditados por Patrick destacan Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society (coeditado con Rehana Dada y Graham Erion) (Rozenberg Publishers y University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2007); Looting Africa: The Economics of Explotiation (Zed Books y UKZN Press, 2006), Elite Transition: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa (UKZN Press, 2005); Fanon's Warning: A Civil Society Reader on the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Africa World Press, 2005); Against Global Apartheid: South Africa meets the World Bank, IMF and International Finance (Zed Books y University of Cape Town Press, 2003).