Jonathan Katzenellenbogen

The government has plans to reconfigure the state. But the precise meaning of this and its scale and timing are still unknown. The need to

This afternoon, the Finance Minister, Enoch Godongwana, will present his Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) to Parliament, outlining spending, taxation, and borrowing plans for the

South Africa is bumbling along from one foreign policy mess to another. The real risk is that at some stage, the West, where most of

The war between Israel and Hamas could become one of the most intense and prolonged that has yet been fought in the Middle East in

For Hamas and its backers, the attacks on Israel over the weekend might be an immense success as a show of an ability to execute

The signs of accelerating state failure are pretty much everywhere: from the potholes, the urban decay, crimes that are not prosecuted, the lack of security,

Last week three South African Navy submariners were swept off their vessel’s hull to their deaths while taking on supplies from a helicopter. An official

For the past two months, the City of Tshwane has faced illegal strike action by the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) in support of

The National Treasury knows that South Africa is heading into an economic crisis, but it can’t do much about that. It lacks the political authority

Downtown Johannesburg is fast becoming a new type of hell where criminal gangs run buildings and disasters strike. Within two months this year, one of