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Signup to Generate a PitchConversations With Gabriel is hosted by The Common Sense ZA. The show has published 38 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Bozell Says South Africa Could Be One of the Biggest Economies on Earth" (20 October 2026, 52 minutes), "Helen Zille: Johannesburg Is Over the Edge, and the DA Won't Stay in Power at All Costs" (16 October 2026, 57 minutes), and "Mlondi Mdluli: Township Businesses Don't Lack Ambition. Red Tape Is Locking Them Out" (15 October 2026, 44 minutes).
Conversations With Gabriel publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 53 minutes across 38 episodes.
Booking probability for Conversations With Gabriel is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Conversations With Gabriel requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Conversations With Gabriel's contact route on record: verified email.
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The Common Sense ZA hosts Conversations With Gabriel, a news podcast with 38 episodes published.
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Conversations With Gabriel
US Ambassador Leo Brent Bozell III says South Africa could become one of the biggest economic powers in the world, and every bit as successful as the United States, with the right policies. He points to the country's...
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Helen Zille, the DA's mayoral candidate for Johannesburg, tells Gabriel Makin that the city is not at the brink of the abyss but already over the edge, and that the DA will not stay in power at all costs. She explains...
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DA MP Mlondi Mdluli, the party's spokesperson on small business development, returns to Conversations with Gabriel, this time in the studio. He walks Gabriel Makin through the five reforms from his piece for The Common...
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Princy Mthombeni, chair of South Africans for Constitutional Reform, is back with Gabriel Makin for the third episode of The Royal Sense. Home Affairs is moving asylum applications online after the Constitutional Court...
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A collaboration between The Common Sense and the African Renaissance Podcast (Thabo Mbeki Foundation). Former EFF MP Dr Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, now a senior fellow at the Thabo Mbeki Foundation, sits down with Gabriel Makin...
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Washington has run out of patience with Pretoria. Joshua Meservey, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and one of the voices behind the new US visa restrictions, tells Gabriel Makin why the Trump administration moved...
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"South Africa belongs to all who live in it." Princy Mthombeni wants that line out of the Constitution. She chairs South Africans for Constitutional Reform, the movement that grew out of her viral review of the whole...
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In this episode of Conversations with Gabriel, Gabriel Makin speaks to Rob Katzen about how a group of old boys helped turn Johannesburg’s Jeppe High School for Boys from a declining public school into one of South...
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In this episode Gabriel Makin is joined again by producer, pastor and youtuber, Bonsai Shongwe. The conversation starts on the question of the African National Congress' influence in South African churches. Bonsai...
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In this episode Gabriel Makin is joined by the Head of Policy for the Democratic Alliance (DA), Mat Cuthbert. The conversation begins with Mat's background and then transitions to his role in proposing the fundamentally...
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In this episode Gabriel Makin is joined by the DA's eThekwini (Durban) mayoral candidate, Haniff Hoosen. The conversation begins with Haniff's background, highlighting his over 30 years in South African politics and his...
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In this episode Gabriel is joined by Wandile Sihlobo, who is the Chief Economist of the Agricultural Business Chamber and the Presidential Envoy on Agiculture and Land. The discussion begins with a brief introduction to...
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In this episode ofConversations with Gabriel, Gabriel Makin and Dr James Myburgh give a definitve historical analysis on the uniquely South African problem of farm murders. The conversation traces the ideological...
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In this episode of Common Sense Conversations, Gabriel Makin talks to Nicholas Nyati about his running for Deputy Federal Chairperson of the DA. The conversation ranges through a number of topics, covering Nicholas's...
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In this episode of the Talking Sense Interview, Gabriel Makin and James Lorimer go into a deep dive into South Africa's mineral and petroleum resources. They explore where South Africa's oil comes from. What effect the...
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In this episode of the Talking Sense Interview, Gabriel Makin and Helen Zille discuss the Johannesburg results from the latest SRF/The Common Sense poll. They unpack the DA's progress and what the polling data reveals...
Episode #12
In this episode of Talking Sense, the Chief Rabbi of South Africa, Dr Warren Goldstein, drops in for a long-form interview with The Common Sense's executive producer, Gabriel Makin. The conversation touches on topics...
Episode #4
CEO of the Free Market Foundation, David Ansara, joins Gabriel Makin for this episode of Talking Sense. The topics range from the history of the FMF, the goals of socialist movements, how to fix South Africa, the cost...
Editor of The Common Sense, Dr Frans Cronje, sits down with The Common Sense's executive producer to discuss the launch of The Common Sense, the real South African story of the last 30 years, the 2024 election and where...
Episode #2
In this episode of Talking Sense former CEO of TBWA/Hunt/Lascaris and founder of South Africa's promise, Muzi Kuzwayo, comes on to discuss what has happened in South Africa since 1994 and how it could be a success.
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Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute, Heritage Foundation
Mayoral Candidate for eThekwini, Democratic Alliance
Chief Economist of the Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa, South Africa's Presidential Envoy on Agriculture and Land
former Western Cape premier and DA leader, Democratic Alliance
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