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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Amidst the despondency, is there some hope?
There is an intense and growing national anxiety about the country’s future. Economic hardship is increasing for most South Africans. Unemployment is persistently high, food
Racial quotas in hiring: another own goal
Last week President Cyril Ramaphosa declared his fifth annual SA investment conference a great success. And last week the President also signed into law the Employment
SA leaving Zimbabweans in the lurch
About 180 000 Zimbabweans and their dependants, who could number as many as a million, will face deportation from South Africa at the end of
DA’s Moonshot Pact for power and the need to avoid bad coalitions
Party congresses are about putting on a show for the next election and are full of big talk. But the Democratic Alliance (DA) has for
What sort of banking crisis could SA have?
In certain ways all banking crises are the same. There is a run on the bank as depositors rush to withdraw their cash and big
Keeping the EFF under pressure
The national shutdown called for by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) on Monday did not bring the country to a standstill. In the end it
The Big Business – Government Stand-off
Big business bosses have come down hard on the government for its lethargy in responding to the multiple crises we face. The message could not
South Africa’s growing isolation
South Africa is drifting into growing isolation from its trading partners and much of the international community. The consequences will be pressures on economic growth,
Will a back-door privatisation of Eskom really go ahead?
Allowing Eskom to concession its fleet of coal-fired power stations to private contractors would have been politically impossible just a few years ago. With the
“Believe in the Future, Step by Step”
Shoichiro Toyoda, one of Japan’s foremost post-war industrialists, who was President of Toyota from 1982 to 1992 and helped the company become the world’s largest