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The destructive impact of the newly imposed US tariffs and aid cuts on South Africa are undeniable. Nonetheless, pockets of hope for advancing global solidarity and a more just global economy remain.
The feature in this issue focuses on the new era of tariffs from the Trump administration and their effects on South Africa.
The National Dialogue is incapable of addressing the structural roots of inequality, unemployment and state collapse.
Problems in public healthcare are the result of budget cuts and staff shortages rather than migrant presence.
South Africa’s current inflation targeting regime, rooted in a liberalised financial framework, has failed to address the country’s core development challenges.
In the past five years, very little land has been redistributed, and one of the central reasons has been the chronic underfunding of land reform.
The National Treasury has long held the false view that there is no alternative to austerity.
South Africa is indeed a sick patient. But neoliberalism is not the cure. It is the disease.
The standard Left argument is that Trump’s tariffs represent capital’s warfare against the working class in response to the crisis of global capitalism.