

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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What comes after a century of South African nationalism?
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Nov 15, 2023
Next year will mark a hundred years since the National Party gained a foothold in government as part of a coalition with the South African

Reconfiguring the state: Is it really politically possible?
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Nov 8, 2023
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

If not now, when will the fiscal crisis be dealt with?
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Nov 1, 2023
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

Playing with fire: SA’s foreign policy mess
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Oct 25, 2023
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

What will emerge from the Israel-Hamas War?
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Oct 18, 2023
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

What form will Israel’s wake up call take?
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Oct 11, 2023
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 Detrimental State and the Counter-Revolution
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Oct 4, 2023
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,

Our wider defence tragedy
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Sep 27, 2023
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

Lessons from the Tshwane strike
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Sep 20, 2023
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 state has run out of money: Muddle or Reform?
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Sep 13, 2023
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