# Frans Cronje

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The Western Cape Ecological Catastrophe, South Africa's Illicit Economy, LA's Crazy Election System

Read the full analysis and more data-driven insights: https://www.thecommonsense.co.za/Become a Common Sense Member for R99/pm https://www.thecommonsense.co.za/subscribeIn this episode of Talking Sense, Gabriel Makin is joined by Frans Cronje, James Myburgh, Simon Lincoln Reader, and Richard Tren t…

Director's Cut: Dr Frans Cronje - Why the DA's biggest threat isn't the ANC

Frans Cronje delivers a hard-hitting assessment of the Democratic Alliance's internal turmoil, John Steenhuisen's dramatic fall from grace, and what it means for South Africa's political future. He argues the DA's biggest challenge is proving it can govern better than the ANC, warns that voter conf…

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

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 young men are abandoning women to leave them to raise children …

ANC at 34%, the Third Force Returns, Jason Arday, News24's IDAC Apology.

Read the full analysis and more data-driven insights: https://www.thecommonsense.co.za/Become a Common Sense Member for R99/pm https://bit.ly/3QJWRIdThis week the panel discusses the Social Research Foundation and The Common Sense new national and Johannesburg, Durban and Pretoria polling. The ANC …

IDAC Captured, Fauci's Diaries Exposed, and the Secret War Under South Africa | Talking Sense

Read the full analysis and more data-driven insights: https://www.thecommonsense.co.za/Become a Common Sense Member for R99/pm https://bit.ly/3QJWRIdSouth Africa's new anti-corruption body, IDAC, was supposed to clean up the state. Instead it appears to have run interference against the people inve…

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

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 how that reaches your bond and credit card rates. Also this we…

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

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 loses the vote can still end up running the council — plus t…

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

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 Lincoln-Reader tells the story of how Nike went woke and lost…

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

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 Africans out of poverty. Also this week: James Myburgh on hi…

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

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 whether this is the moment to seize. Also this week: why the di…