Real Economy
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... →
Pushing back
By: Terence Creamer 8th March 2019 Government has finally started to push back against those who blame renewable energy and independent power producers (IPPs) for the current woes at... →
Potential gridlock
By: Terence Creamer 1st March 2019 Besides confirming additional financial support for Eskom in his Budget address last week, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni and the National Treasury... →
Time to reach out
By: Terence Creamer 22nd February 2019 It has been death by a thousand cuts. Failed by a series of short-sighted politicians, misguided policymakers and inept executives, Eskom is now... →
Listen to the customer?
By: Terence Creamer 15th February 2019 One of the most hotly contested technical points debated during the National Energy Regulator of South Africa’s (Nersa’s) nationwide hearings into... →
