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A podcast that brings you cutting-edge ideas on how to create a just economy and society. We have conversations with policymakers and activists at the forefront of efforts to transform our society. Join Isobel Frye, a Lawyer and Social Justice activist, who strives to provide you with information and insights so that you can have meaningful debates in your spaces and communities.
Isobella Jade was a petite model in Manhattan for over ten years, she's an inspirational advocate for girls of all sizes, and the author of her modeling memoir "Almost 5'4"" and her graphic novel "Model Life: The Journey of a Pint-Size Fashion Warrior." Her collection of short stories "Short Stuff: on the job with an x-small model" features modeling jobs she done with Macy's, leg modeling with Victoria's Secret, Marshalls, Easy Spirit and others and tips for aspiring shorter models. Her show ...
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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 saw how grants enabled poor people in her surrounds to…
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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 grants enabled poor people in her surroundings to live wit…
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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 traction now not only in South Africa but also globally. …
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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 traction now not only in South Africa but also globally. …
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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 social justice today. Visit the SPI website…
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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 policies during the first 15 years of democracy. We ask …
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 view that South Africa CANNOT afford not to have a unive…
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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-Covid. The constitutional obligations of the state t…
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 economic growth and successive economic recessions. Owen and …
What is the BIG idea? — The Idea whose time has come. 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 labour in key social policy negotiations, including the landmark Taylor …
Have you ever seen or been in a fight at school? Or been bullied? Have you ever seen an act of compassion that touched your heart? Author Isobella Jade chats about the revenge and bullying in her new YA novel Careful. http://www.isobelladreams.com/TheCarefulQuietInvisibleSeries.htmlhttp://www.isobelladreams.com/TheCarefulQuietInvisibleSeries.htmlch…
Isobella Jade's new YA novel Careful has just been released and is about a promising teen athlete who dies from a texting-related car crash. Jade will be reading from the book and also chat about the elements of friendship, forgiveness, revenge and bullying that show up throughout the book. Check out the book trailer for Careful: http://www.isobell…
Isobella Jade reads from her new YA book Careful, due July 26, 2012. Careful is about the spirit of a sixteen year old girl who dies in a texting and driving crash and Jade calls the book "a Lovely Bones meets The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, deeply sentimental but with a bit of edge." Careful is the first book of the Careful, Quiet, Invisibl…
This July, Isobella Jade, best known as the petite model who wrote her memoir Almost 5'4" at the Apple store in New York City, releases Careful, the first book of a sentimental young adult novel series called Careful, Quiet, Invisible, about the spirit of girl who dies in a texting while driving crash. Jade chats about how the death of her father i…
"If something has been on your mind for some time now making you wonder if it’s possible or if taking that chance would be worth it and if you should pursue it, recognize it as your inner-voice, there’s a purpose for that thought of wonder, that something is not something to ignore, that ‘something’ is what you should do." In this segment Isobella …
