Real Economy
Bridge, not destination
By: Terence Creamer Updated 39 minutes ago How do people in Gauteng know when motorists are driving under the influence? They are driving straight! It is to this type of sardonic humour that... →
Distribution dilemma
By: Terence Creamer 12th June 2026 During a recent joint meeting of the portfolio committees on electricity and energy and cooperative governance and traditional affairs it became... →
Virtue of necessity
By: Terence Creamer 5th June 2026 Following an embarrassing false start, the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies has set a deadline of early next year for the... →
Big and small pictures
By: Terence Creamer 29th May 2026 Much has been written in recent weeks about the geopolitical factors now driving the energy transition. Particular attention has been given to how... →
Risks to reform
By: Terence Creamer 22nd May 2026 The economic reform agenda has emerged as the defining feature of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s presidency, especially the reforms under way to open... →
Don’t waste the crisis
By: Terence Creamer 15th May 2026 South Africa is experiencing its third energy crisis of this decade. While electricity loadshedding has been a threat for far longer, the most... →
Policy conundrum
By: Terence Creamer 8th May 2026 At the start of South Africa’s democratic era, the availability of cheap coal-fired electricity emerged as the country’s main instrument for... →
Supply lines
By: Terence Creamer 1st May 2026 South Africa has not escaped the fuel price shocks associated with disruptions to shipping in the Strait of Hormuz energy corridor and the damage... →
Full disclosure
By: Terence Creamer 24th April 2026 Given its recent history, the fact that Eskom is even able to contemplate entering into a 62c/kWh tariff deal with the ferrochrome industry is... →
Big lingering questions
By: Terence Creamer 17th April 2026 During the most recent energy crisis – triggered by attacks by the US and Israel on Iran that resulted in the near closure of the Strait of Hormuz... →
