Real Economy
What emergency?
By: Terence Creamer 5th June 2020 News that bid documentation is finally being prepared for the so-called emergency procurement of 2 000 MW of electricity generation from... →
A renewables stimulus
By: Terence Creamer 29th May 2020 There are several stimulus levers that South Africa will consider pulling to extricate itself from what is far more likely to be a serious... →
Disturbingly misguided
By: Terence Creamer 22nd May 2020 Being able to participate, virtually, in several of the parliamentary committee meetings that have taken place during May has been a combination of... →
Department of wasted energy?
By: Terence Creamer 15th May 2020 Many acerbic comments have been made about the folly of government pursuing a strategy to build a ‘new’ national carrier from the carcass of the... →
World in (green) union?
By: Terence Creamer 8th May 2020 In a speech to the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, held by video conference this year owing to the ongoing threat of the Covid-19 virus, International... →
Here to Stay
By: Terence Creamer 1st May 2020 During a recent interview with Stephen Sackur, the presenter of BBC HARDtalk, World Health Organisation special envoy for Covid-19 Dr David Nabarro... →
Steepening the economic curve
By: Terence Creamer 24th April 2020 Thanks to the chairperson of the Ministerial Advisory Group on Covid-19, Professor Salim Abdool Karim, South Africans have some insight into the... →
Clean energy as a post-Covid-19 stimulus 
By: Terence Creamer 17th April 2020 With Covid-19 and climate change arguably posing the greatest existential threats to this generation, as well as future generations, calls are... →
Working during a pandemic
By: Terence Creamer 10th April 2020 Flattening the curve, as Harvard Kennedy School’s Ricardo Hausmann pointed out in a recent presentation, means that there will be fewer cases of... →
Virtue of necessity
By: Terence Creamer 3rd April 2020 This 21-day lockdown is quite obviously a solution that has been cooked up for a very different context to the one prevailing in South Africa. It... →
