Real Economy
Escalating crisis
By: Terence Creamer 29th January 2021 During a recent briefing on the escalating humanitarian crisis in the gas-rich Cabo Delgado province, of northern Mozambique, the United Nations... →
Poverty setback
By: Terence Creamer 22nd January 2021 The Global Economic Prospects report, released by the World Bank earlier this month, makes for disturbing reading. The report states that the... →
Good news amid the bad
By: Terence Creamer 15th January 2021 The prognosis for stable electricity supply remains precarious and has deteriorated following the unplanned early shutdown of Unit 1 at the Koeberg... →
2020’s brutal lessons
By: Terence Creamer 11th December 2020 While the glow from the embers of this historic year remain visible, the fire of 2020 is now truly dying – not a moment too soon for many, no... →
North-South divide?
By: Terence Creamer 4th December 2020 Editorial Insight 4 December 2020 The energy policy stance of North Africa’s largest economy, Egypt, is not only increasingly aligned with the... →
Framework urgently needed
By: Terence Creamer 27th November 2020 For years, South Africans have had a vague awareness that some of Eskom’s coal stations are approaching the end of their useful lives and that... →
Baffling distraction
By: Terence Creamer 20th November 2020 While South Africa is distracting itself with a post-2030 nuclear mirage, much of the rest of the world is preparing to ride a very real energy... →
Debt compact?
By: Terence Creamer 13th November 2020 For some time now, Eskom has been arguing that its debt load, which stood at R484-billion at the end of March, could only be considered sustainable... →
Grid(un)locked
By: Terence Creamer 6th November 2020 Most of us have probably not fully grasped the scale and significance of the changes set to unfold in the South African electricity sector over the... →
Some progress
By: Terence Creamer 30th October 2020 Despite much head scratching over the timelines provided in the Reconstruction and Recovery Plan for the commissioning of much-needed electricity... →
