Rational Standard Podcast

In this episode, we travel to the offices of the Free Market Foundation  in Johannesburg and talk to Martin van Staden about South Africa's  latest bill in Parliament. We discuss the bill and it's effects and go  on to speak about the problems of South Africa's regulatory environment  and governmental discretionary powers

Martin van Staden is the Legal Researcher at the Free Market Foundation  and the Academic Programs Director of Students For Liberty in Southern  Africa. Martin is chief editor of two publications, BeingLibertarian.com  and RationalStandard.com. He has a law degree from the University of  Pretoria.

In this episode, we talk with economist Dawie Roodt about South Africa's  tax code, why it was necessary to increase VAT to 15%, why flat taxes  are far superior to progressive taxes as well as some discussion on job  creation and banking.

Christiaan van Huyssteen and Nicholas Babaya discuss a range of current  affairs, politics and economics in the first episode of Diagonal Views, a  current affairs segment of the Rational Standard Podcast.

Nick chats with cartoonist Jeremy Nell, better known as Jerm. Jerm talks  about how he got into drawing cartoons, his relationship with the  mostly left-leaning cartoonist community of South Africa as well as his  experiences working for various media outlets, both mainstream and  alternative.

n this episode, we chat with South African Member of Parliament Zak  Mbhele on libertarianism, the Democratic Alliance and why libertarians  should feel at home voting for the DA.

In this episode, we talk with Orania resident Joost Strydom and discuss  what life is like living in Orania, how the town functions as well as  dispelling a few a few rumours about Orania put forward by a prejudicial  press.

Martin van Staden discusses his libertarian stance on the Democratic  Alliance (DA) alongside podcast host, Nicholas Babaya, in episode 3 of  the Rational Standard Podcast.

In this episode, we speak with Deena Katzen from the South African Union  of Jewish Students about the validity of calling Israel and ‘apartheid  state’ as well as a few other issues relating to the State of Israel.

In this first episode, we talk with guest Ron Weissenberg, a  Grahamstown-based business owner, libertarian, and all-round do-gooder.  We iron out the kinks of running a free podcast without funding while  discussing Ron's amazing initiative to prove that the government isn't  needed to maintain the basic infrastructure such a roads and electricity  as well as explaining how you at home could do this in your own town.

Before the Rational Standard was official, the co-founders of what  became the Rational Standard hosted series of group discussions about  South African news and politics.

In this episode, Christiaan van Huyssteen, Martin van Staden and Nicholas Woode-Smith discuss the key elements of the African National Congress' 2015 annual National General Council.