ICC Exit, 15% Middle Class, 66% JSE Black Ownership, & Mettler State Capture
The panel unpacks South Africa’s ICC debate, the real size of the middle class, JSE ownership, state capture in Tshwane, school politics, sports quotas, family collapse and the weakening of the West.
Gabriel Makin
-1h 36mIn this episode of Talking Sense, the panel breaks down the week's biggest stories: South Africa’s push to exit the ICC following Trump’s crackdown, the true size of SA’s middle class (just 15% - and how it could have doubled), black ownership of the JSE (66% of local capital), the suspension of honest Tshwane municipal manager Johan Mettler amid fresh state capture attempts, elite school politics at Bishops, sports quotas and Bokkieweek, and shocking data on South Africa’s children and collapsing family structures.
Plus: Ro Khanna’s Israel stunt, the passing of Senator Lindsey Graham, and the growing weakness of the West.
