Subsidies’ value: Workers on the assembly line at Toyota’s manufacturing plant in Durban. The vehicle sector employs 120 000 people and contributes 6.4% to GDP. Photo: Waldo Swiegers/Getty Images
Political analysis in the “serious” spaces outside of the sometimes very crude social media frenzy tend to assume that the threat to the economy only comes from predatory forms of authoritarian nationalism, but the threats to the economy also come from the liberal right.
There has been little discussion of the Democratic Alliance’s (DA)…