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Latest episodes

• Should the DA Refuse to Govern Joburg? Record Diesel Prices and Mbalula's Expropriation Lies

  October 9, 2026 · 1 hr 33 min

  New News24/SABI polling puts the DA at about 40% in Johannesburg. Frans Cronje makes the case that the DA should refuse to govern the city on those numbers, win Gauteng in 2029 and fix it from a position of strength. James Myburgh asks…

• Mbeki's Counter-Revolution Theory, Myburgh in Washington and the 10 Million SA Left in Poverty

  October 2, 2026 · 1 hr 24 min

  Thabo Mbeki's 120-page thesis says a counter-revolution planted inside the ANC brought the party down. Frans Cronje explains why its own policies did it, and why growing at 5% a year since 2008 would have lifted more than 10 million South…

• The GNU Risk Markets Are Missing, the DA Takes SA's Cities, AI Doomers, and Germany's Split

  September 23, 2026 · 1 hr 38 min

  Markets have priced South African risk down to almost zero on the belief that the GNU holds after November. Frans Cronje and Bheki Mahlobo explain why the foundations are weaker than in 2024, what would reprice SA's bonds overnight, and…

• Springboks For Sale, America Sanctions the ANC, a Serial Killer, Somaliland, and the Enclave Future

  September 17, 2026 · 1 hr 30 min

  Become a member of The Common Sense for R99 a month: https://thecommonsense.co.za/subscribe This week the Talking Sense panel talks about the Springboks' Baltimore experiment and the bid to buy the Boks, the United States' first sanctions…

• South Africa's Election Maths Problem, the Black Vote Shatters, the Falklands, and Wouter Basson

  September 10, 2026 · 1 hr 45 min

  Become a member of The Common Sense for just R99 a month: https://www.thecommonsense.co.za/subscribe This week on Talking Sense: the election maths problem that could throw November's local government results into chaos — how a party that…

• Milei's Argentina, the US Bond Spike, SA's Strange Crime Stats and Nike Going Woke.

  September 4, 2026 · 2 hr 4 min

  Richard Tren reports from Buenos Aires on Milei's revolution, Frans Cronje explains what the US bond yield spike actually means, James Myburgh unpacks South Africa's mysterious murder decline and the party funding declarations, and Simon…

• The ANC's Two Eras | The Water Bill | Shell | Jason Arday | SA's Verdict on US Companies

  August 26, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min

  In the latest episode of Talking Sense, with James Myburgh, Richard Tren, and Simon Lincoln-Reader, and hosted by Gabriel Makin, the panel looks at new SRF polling showing that South Africans support closer alignment with the United…

• Talking Sense I Duduzane Zuma, the DA Manifesto, and America’s Cost of Living

  August 20, 2026 · 1 hr 32 min

  Black South Africans are more willing than white South Africans to move to the US as refugees, according to new polling discussed in this week’s episode of Talking Sense. The panel discusses South Africa's "useless men" problem and why…