Real Economy
Green independence
By: Terence Creamer 1st April 2022 Policymakers should not misread the admittedly confusing energy market signals that have arisen since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The confusion... →
Spillover effects
By: Terence Creamer 25th March 2022 There is significant concern, and rightfully so, about the outlook for fuel prices and security of supply following Russia’s brutal invasion of... →
Overexposed
By: Terence Creamer 18th March 2022 The most recent bout of load-shedding not only reconfirmed South Africa’s debilitating overexposure to coal, but also this country’s growing... →
Contested territory
By: Terence Creamer 11th March 2022 The just transition was always going to be a highly contested concept and the battle, it appears, is only but beginning. South Africa has already... →
Focus on Growth
By: Terence Creamer 4th March 2022 Having some breathing space as a result of a R182-billion tax windfall is one thing, using it wisely is quite another. Finance Minister Enoch... →
Public paralysis
By: Terence Creamer 25th February 2022 To the outside observer, the recent debate on the importance of the private sector in creating employment must have come across as almost surreal... →
Let’s get it right
By: Terence Creamer 18th February 2022 Minerals Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe is correct about the need to update the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP). Even on the very day,... →
Precarious tipping point
By: Terence Creamer 11th February 2022 Government and its energy policymakers in particular seem oblivious to the predicament South Africa is in when it comes to the electricity supply... →
Vicious cycle
By: Terence Creamer 4th February 2022 It was obvious for all those who took the time to listen in to the National Energy Regulator of South Africa’s (Nersa’s) most recent hearings into... →
Democracy still best vaccine against populism
By: Terence Creamer 28th January 2022 South Africa is not immune to pandemics and 2022 has, thus far, proved something of a super-spreader event for the virus of populism. From... →
