Cas Coovadia- Managing Director, Banking Association of South Africa
Episode 69, May 29, 2019, 02:29 PM
Cas Coovadia is the Managing Director of BASA, the Banking Association of South Africa. The BASA website states, "The role of The Banking Association is to facilitate the enablement of a conducive banking environment through robust engagement with government and relevant stakeholders."
We chatted about the role of BASA, the kind of roles banks can play in stimulating growth and alleviating poverty as well as issues around a proposed state-owned bank and suggestions to nationalise the reserve bank.
Cas has a long history in community and political activism dating back to his student days and then the United Democratic Front. He was detained a number of times in the 1980’s.
He also spoke on the need for a renewal of community-based activism across the country to protect our fragile society and the democratic project.
We chatted about the role of BASA, the kind of roles banks can play in stimulating growth and alleviating poverty as well as issues around a proposed state-owned bank and suggestions to nationalise the reserve bank.
Cas has a long history in community and political activism dating back to his student days and then the United Democratic Front. He was detained a number of times in the 1980’s.
He also spoke on the need for a renewal of community-based activism across the country to protect our fragile society and the democratic project.