

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.
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The Zelensky visit: Engineering backdowns?
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Apr 30, 2025
There are signs of an about-turn in a key aspect of the ANC’s foreign policy. Last week Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky paid a one-day visit

Racial Quotas: A path to job losses and slow growth
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Apr 23, 2025
In a display of ethnic nationalism and faith in central planning, the government released its new racial workforce quotas for private companies last week. Since

If the ANC backs down on the VAT increase
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Apr 16, 2025
The ANC appears to be on the verge of backing down on any increase in VAT. At first, the ANC’s back-down on a VAT increase

The ANC can’t save itself by a “reset” of the GNU
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Apr 9, 2025
The ANC showed yesterday that it is desperate to dilute the role of the DA in any future power-sharing arrangement. It hopes it can more

Hitting bottom as a spark for change?
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Apr 2, 2025
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?
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Mar 26, 2025
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?
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Mar 19, 2025
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
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Mar 12, 2025
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
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Mar 5, 2025
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
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Feb 26, 2025
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