Latest Duma gqubule Podcast Episodes

Power Disruptor Ayanda Sishi Part 2 | Youth and Gender Activism and BIG

Rewired - January 30, 2023 09:26 - 26 minutes
Youth and Gender activist, Ayanda Sishi Wigzell speaks to Isobel Frye, Khutso Makobela and Amahle Ngwenya of SPI on Basic Income Grant in this two-part episode. In Part One Ayanda talks about the importance of Dignity in defining her activism and how poverty actively erodes this. Growing up she ...

Power Disruptor Ayanda Sishi Part 1 | Youth and Gender Activism and BIG

Rewired - January 24, 2023 04:00 - 36 minutes
Youth and Gender activist Ayanda Sishi Wigzell speaks to Isobel Frye, Khutso Makobela, and Amahle Ngwenya of SPI on Basic Income Grant in this two-part episode. Ayanda talks about the importance of dignity in defining her activism and how poverty actively erodes this. Growing up she saw how gran...

In the Balance Part 2 | Hein Marais unpacks his recent political economy of UBI

Rewired - December 07, 2022 10:00 - 24 minutes
In this episode, Hein Marais, author of two critical works on the political economy of the South African transition and the stagnation of change, explains his reasoning for a universal basic income. Marais identifies the growing support of business for the idea and also says why the idea has trac...

In the Balance Part 1 | Hein Marais unpacks his recent political economy of UBI

Rewired - November 29, 2022 10:00 - 36 minutes
In this episode, Hein Marais, author of two critical works on the political economy of the South African transition and the stagnation of change, explains his reasoning for a universal basic income. Marais identifies the growing support of business for the idea and also says why the idea has trac...

A BIG just makes sense | Portia Derby and Derek Thomas tell it like it is

Rewired - November 19, 2022 04:38 - 53 minutes
Portia Derby, Group Head of Transnet and Derek Thomas, co-founder and shareholder of Letsema Holdings, talk about why a BIG is the only common sense thing to do to get SA back on track and share their early awakenings of the inequality and madness of Apartheid which formed their commitment to soc...

Can South Africa Reimagine Economic Policy after 26 years of Democracy | Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi

Rewired - September 21, 2020 13:46 - 55 minutes
Can South Africa Reimagine Economic Policy after 26 years of Democracy — Why has South Africa failed to transform its economy? Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi During this episode, we have a conversation with Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi who served as a cabinet minister between 1996 and 2008. We explore...

Can South Africa Reimagine Economic Policy | Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi

Rewired - September 21, 2020 04:00 - 55 minutes
Can South Africa Reimagine Economic Policy after 26 years of Democracy — Why has South Africa failed to transform its economy? During this episode, we have a conversation with Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi who served as a cabinet minister between 1996 and 2008. We explore social and macroeconomic p...

Can we afford NOT to have a BIG in South Africa? | Guy Standing (Professorial Research Associate, SOAS University of London and co-Founder of BIEN)

Rewired - August 24, 2020 09:15 - 50 minutes
Can we afford NOT to have a BIG in South Africa? — Pilots, multipliers and Covid- recovery stimulus - let the evidence lead Guy Standing (Professorial Research Associate, SOAS University of London and co-Founder of BIEN) In this episode, Guy Standing, internationally renown expert and widely p...

Can we afford NOT to have a BIG in South Africa? | Guy Standing

Rewired - August 24, 2020 04:00 - 50 minutes
Pilots, multipliers and Covid- recovery stimulus - let the evidence lead. In this episode, Guy Standing, internationally renowned expert and widely published author on BIG speaks to Duma and Isobel about his experience as an advisor to President Mandela on labour market issues, as well as his vi...

Does South Africa need more Austerity or a Fiscal Stimulus? | Busi Sibeko (Institute for Economic Justice | Researcher)

Rewired - July 27, 2020 09:50 - 52 minutes
Does South Africa need more Austerity or a Fiscal Stimulus? — Can SA Reimagine Fiscal Policy in the wake of the Covid-19 depression? Busi Sibeko (Institute for Economic Justice | Researcher) In this episode Busi Sibeko talks to Duma Gqubule and Isobel Frye about reimagining a Rewired fiscal po...

Does South Africa need more austerity or a fiscal stimulus? | Busi Sibeko

Rewired - July 27, 2020 04:00 - 52 minutes
In this episode, Busi Sibeko talks to Duma Gqubule and Isobel Frye about reimagining a Rewired fiscal policy in the wake of the Covid-19 economic depression. The conversation details the inadequacy of the stimulus package announced by the state on top of the austerity path already embarked on pre...

Monetary policy shibboleths and sacred cows | Owen Willcox | Oxford Policy Management

Rewired - July 03, 2020 06:20 - 44 minutes
Monetary policy shibboleths and sacred cows — Understanding how past bad orthodox monetary policies must change Owen Willcox | Oxford Policy Management In this episode, Owen Willcox (formerly National Treasury and now with Oxford Policy Management) talks to hosts Isobel Frye and Duma Gqubule a...

Monetary policy shibboleths and sacred cows | Owen Willcox

Rewired - July 03, 2020 04:00 - 44 minutes
Understanding how past bad orthodox monetary policies must change. In this episode, Owen Willcox (formerly National Treasury and now with Oxford Policy Management) talks to hosts Isobel Frye and Duma Gqubule about the choices made around monetary policy and how this might have led to low economi...

What is the BIG idea? | Ravi Naidoo

Rewired - June 19, 2020 07:35 - 43 minutes
What is the BIG idea? — The Idea whose time has come Ravi Naidoo In this episode Isobel and Duma talk to Ravi Naidoo, who leads the Bluefields Group, which focuses on impact investment. He previously served as a director of Naledi, Cosatu's think. During this time he represented organised labo...