Trade Cold War dogma for wide-ranging ideology
Many proponents of delinking from Western trade do not understand how the South African economy, business and trade are integrated into the global economy
02 April 2023 - 00:00
Delinking South Africa’s economy from trade with its largest partners, industrial countries, to Brics (Brazil, Russia, India and China) — as many populists and other, more well-meaning but naive individuals want — will collapse the economy and plunge the rand into free fall and the country into chaos. Possibly a dreaded failed state...
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