Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
Jonathan Katzenellenbogen is a Johannesburg-based freelance journalist. His articles have appeared on DefenceWeb, Politicsweb, as well as in a number of overseas publications. Katzenellenbogen has also worked on Business Day and as a TV and radio reporter and newsreader. He has a Master's degree in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Articles By This Author
Hitting bottom as a spark for change?
Our economy is in a deep slump. We are getting poorer, with our economic growth rate consistently below the rate of increase in our population.
ANC: How does it back down to save SA from a full-blown crisis?
Two big issues are now front and centre in our politics, and both point to the divided and weakened state of the ANC. Neither issue
What Rasool said: insights into the ANC mind?
Ebrahim Rasool, the former South African Ambassador to the US whom the Trump administration kicked out of the country over the weekend, has been thrown
Budget speech or no speech today: The VAT fight and our new politics
The Finance Minister, Enoch Godongwana, may or may not deliver the Budget speech later today. Our politics are in a strange new place. For the
The upended world
President Donald Trump is on a path to upending the world order of international security and trade that has evolved since World War II. He
And now for the cuts – dealing with the unions and the tenderpreneurs
The ANC’s partners in the Government of National Unity (GNU) might have just saved the ANC from itself. Had the ANC’s partners in the GNU
Budget Basics: Low growth, uncontrollable spending, and no reform
South Africa’s government finances are facing a severe squeeze and will continue to do so as long as we have a miserable economic growth rate
SA’s shredded foreign policy
The two pillars of South Africa’s post-1994 foreign policy have crumbled; we do not have the resources and capabilities to undertake large-scale peacekeeping missions across
To “Make America Great Again” Trump will dole out aid
It is not only South Africa that is threatened with a cut-off in US aid. On Sunday, US President Donald Trump accused SA of, “confiscating
The DA and the ANC: Will a moderate centre ever hold in SA?
The government of national unity (GNU) is heading for a breakup, although this is not about to happen soon. It’s highly unlikely that DA ministers