Real Economy
Mind the Gap
By: Terence Creamer 14th August 2020 A maddening mismatch between big infrastructure promises and small delivery has been a constant and trust-destroying feature of South Africa for... →
Wake-up call
By: Terence Creamer 7th August 2020 Whether or not the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) appeals the recent adverse High Court judgment against it in relation to its... →
Investment milestone
By: Terence Creamer 31st July 2020 The fact that Mozambique has been able to preside over Africa’s biggest-ever financing deal for a project located in what is the epicentre of an... →
The good, bad and ugly
By: Terence Creamer 24th July 2020 First, some good news. The fact that the economic recovery plans presented this month by business and the governing party have strong areas of... →
Time for action
By: Terence Creamer 17th July 2020 There is a growing sense that, unless key stakeholders, especially labour, begin to see some practical planning and action around South Africa’s... →
Maximising impact
By: Terence Creamer 10th July 2020 As South Africa weighs an infrastructure-led economic recovery at a time when, owing to extreme fiscal pressures and warnings of a sovereign-debt... →
Good, sobering and bad
By: Terence Creamer 3rd July 2020 News out for the inaugural Sustainable Infrastructure Development Symposium South Africa – held last week both physically at the Union Buildings,... →
Big green recovery
By: Terence Creamer 26th June 2020 Over the past few months, several commentators have actively sought to join the dots between the current existential threat posed by the... →
Grim picture
By: Terence Creamer 19th June 2020 The damage wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic on the South African economy is becoming horrifyingly clearer by the day. The World Bank warns that... →
Transparent and rational stimulus choices
By: Terence Creamer 12th June 2020 Governments and economists around the world are currently considering how best to respond to the economic shock caused by the Covid-19 pandemic... →
