Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
Jonathan Katzenellenbogen is a Johannesburg-based freelance financial journalist. His articles have appeared on DefenceWeb, Politicsweb, as well as in a number of overseas publications. Jonathan has also worked on Business Day and as a TV and radio reporter and newsreader.
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What would a reform agenda for South Africa look like?
President Cyril Ramaphosa frequently talks about the need for structural economic reform in his State of the Nation addresses and elsewhere. But what our government
What after the Zondo Commission?
The Zondo Commission issued the first of its three reports on state capture last week, raising the chance that a wave of prosecutions and convictions
South Africa’s vicious economic cycle
The South African economy is trapped in a vicious cycle of low growth, high unemployment, high government budget deficits, bad governance, vast, poorly run sectors
South Africa in 2022
For South Africa in 2022 the overriding force in politics will be the continued decline of the ANC. The signs of demise are everywhere – achieving
Drifting toward a lower-middle income country
By the end of the decade the South African economy might have dropped so far into a vortex of decline that we will become a
Until there is strong growth, South Africa will be in crisis
Last week Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana presented a three-year budget plan that somewhat pleased the markets. Higher than expected tax receipts, mainly the result of
What the ANC below 50 percent and coalition politics mean for reform
For the first time ever, the ANC’s share of the vote has sunk below 50 percent. With this last week’s local government election is the
Eskom: Some answers for Jessie Duarte
During last week’s serious bout of load-shedding, the acting Secretary-General of the ANC, Jessie Duarte, was out campaigning and needed to deflect blame for the
South Africa’s Election Conundrum
The ANC does extraordinarily well at the polls in the face of poor delivery, growing unemployment, and urban decay. Towns run by the party are
The steel industry’s perfect storm
South Africa was once a significant world player in the steel industry. Today the sector appears to be in terminal decline. Output and employment in