Real Economy
Our thoughts at this difficult time
30th July 2021 2021 is proving to be another difficult year for South African business. Despite rising minerals prices and some credible signs that initiatives... →
Self help
By: Terence Creamer 23rd July 2021 Hidden among data-rich economic commentary and an array of analytical figures and tables, the World Bank’s most recent South Africa Economic Update... →
Fresh uncertainty?
By: Terence Creamer 16th July 2021 One warning raised amid the euphoria generated by President Cyril Ramaphosa’s June 10 announcement that Schedule 2 of the Electricity Regulation... →
Bridge to the future?
By: Terence Creamer 9th July 2021 It doesn’t seem possible to resolve most societal problems until they are. This is especially true for something as complex and multifaceted as the... →
Big unifying idea
By: Terence Creamer 2nd July 2021 South Africa does not lack for plans. What the country does lack, however, is a big unifying idea around which its plans, policies and programmes... →
Growth Engines
By: Terence Creamer 25th June 2021 June could well go down as the month that South Africa finally turned the key on the starter motors of some important growth engines. The precise... →
Public paralysis
By: Terence Creamer 18th June 2021 Images of the remarkable Gift of the Givers drilling for water outside the Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital, in Coronationville, Gauteng, may... →
Light in the gloom
By: Terence Creamer 11th June 2021 The already fragile national mood has turned decidedly more sour over the past few weeks as the country descended, yet again, into... →
Remarkable appetite
By: Terence Creamer 4th June 2021 The level of interest being shown in South Africa’s highly-disrupted renewables roll-out is more than a little noteworthy. Over 800 delegates... →
Irrational exuberance
By: Terence Creamer 28th May 2021 South Africa’s ongoing resistance to the energy transition is not only distressingly out of step with fast-moving developments, but is becoming a... →
