This week on Talking Sense: Frans Cronje tells viewers about 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 how the latest The Common Sense polling shows the extent to which the black vote in South Africa is fragmenting, Simon Lincoln Reader talks about the Falklands being back in the news (and what Milei is playing at) and the Chagos giveaway, and Richard Tren discusses the American midterms and Trump's own goals. The panel also discusses the strange return of Wouter Basson, and a rare piece of good news — the Supreme Court of Appeal clears the way for the Western Cape's school reforms.