Real Economy
Virtue of necessity
By: Terence Creamer 5th June 2026 Following an embarrassing false start, the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies has set a deadline of early next year for the... →
Big and small pictures
By: Terence Creamer 29th May 2026 Much has been written in recent weeks about the geopolitical factors now driving the energy transition. Particular attention has been given to how... →
Risks to reform
By: Terence Creamer 22nd May 2026 The economic reform agenda has emerged as the defining feature of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s presidency, especially the reforms under way to open... →
Don’t waste the crisis
By: Terence Creamer 15th May 2026 South Africa is experiencing its third energy crisis of this decade. While electricity loadshedding has been a threat for far longer, the most... →
Policy conundrum
By: Terence Creamer 8th May 2026 At the start of South Africa’s democratic era, the availability of cheap coal-fired electricity emerged as the country’s main instrument for... →
Supply lines
By: Terence Creamer 1st May 2026 South Africa has not escaped the fuel price shocks associated with disruptions to shipping in the Strait of Hormuz energy corridor and the damage... →
Full disclosure
By: Terence Creamer 24th April 2026 Given its recent history, the fact that Eskom is even able to contemplate entering into a 62c/kWh tariff deal with the ferrochrome industry is... →
Big lingering questions
By: Terence Creamer 17th April 2026 During the most recent energy crisis – triggered by attacks by the US and Israel on Iran that resulted in the near closure of the Strait of Hormuz... →
Power play
By: Terence Creamer 10th April 2026 A stand-out statement in President Cyril Ramaphosa’s February 12 State of the Nation Address (SoNA) was the following: “We are restructuring Eskom... →
Time to get serious
By: Terence Creamer 3rd April 2026 The discussion about the future of South Africa's domestic oil refinery fleet is a long and complicated one. It has naturally flared again because... →
