How South Africa can succeed in a multipolar world
Daily Maverick | 07.04.2026 02:19
Global trade is under assault by populist-inspired protectionism. Tariffs are US President Donald Trump’s weapon of choice in this attack. As a result, the world is seemingly deglobalising. At least this is how the mass media tells it. Intended or not, deglobalisation conjures up the 1930s, which ushered in the Great Depression, and the global conflagration of World War 2. It is a very scary prospect.
