Real Economy
Time to engage
By: Terence Creamer 17th May 2019 The mood at the media conference hosted in February at the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) 7 Rissik Street head office in downtown Johannesburg... →
No honeymoon
By: Terence Creamer 10th May 2019 With the 2019 finally elections out of the way, the new administration can expect little or no honeymoon period. The President and his team will... →
Technology and systemic innovation
By: Terence Creamer 3rd May 2019 Asked during a recent interview with Wired magazine what technologies will have the most impact during the next five to 10 years, former US... →
Seeing the unseeable
By: Terence Creamer 26th April 2019 The backstory to the capturing of the first-ever images of a supermassive black hole, taken from the galaxy known as M87, holds lessons for South... →
Backsliding
By: Terence Creamer 19th April 2019 Economic growth across sub-Saharan Africa remained below population growth for the fourth consecutive year in 2018, with the region’s largest... →
Political anchor needed
By: Terence Creamer 12th April 2019 During a recent lecture in South Africa, world-renowned political scientist and author Francis Fukuyama took his audience on a brief yet... →
Ethics and capability
By: Terence Creamer 5th April 2019 It is interesting to note that the National School of Government’s mandatory and compulsory programmes – launched last month as part of a renewed... →
What is to be done?
By: Terence Creamer 29th March 2019 In the short-term, the only way for South Africa’s crisis-prone electricity utility to stave off rotational power cuts, or decrease the severity of... →
Extraordinary Change 
By: Terence Creamer 22nd March 2019 Some major changes are under way on both the supply and the demand sides of the global oil market. On the demand side, petrochemicals and jet fuel... →
Premature Deindustrialisation?
By: Terence Creamer 15th March 2019 Despite the ongoing transition to one where industrial activity is increasingly supported by digitalisation, automation and artificial... →
