Jonathan Katzenellenbogen

About thirty years ago, when I worked as a management consultant, our team was often asked by clients about what competitive advantages were due to

With seriously worsening power cuts, the disastrous state of Eskom is now the country’s single biggest political issue. For the ANC, Eskom has become its

For years South African presidents have been regulars at the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, a Swiss ski resort. The meeting in Davos

Yet again, the ANC has put the Reserve Bank into political play. At its recent National Conference, the party agreed that the central bank’s mandate

Key aspects about the country’s direction of travel might have been uncertain a few years ago, but are now close to certainties. We know that

This article, the third most-read article in 2022 looks at the Dis-Chem debacle, when a memorandum announcing a moratorium on the hiring of white people

The most read Daily Friend story of 2022 contains this powerful – and, in the light of recent events, ironic – statement by a courageous

The post-Covid lockdown shocks, inflationary pressures, recession, and rising discontent across the world are increasingly threatening governments. Nationalism and populism have run their course for

About 18 months ago the word from the government was that the future of South African Airways (SAA), the bankrupt state-owned airline, was all solved. 

Manias, panics, and near crashes have plagued the cryptocurrency market. After the collapse last week of FTX, other exchanges which buy and sell digital assets