Real Economy
The stuff of nightmares
By: Terence Creamer 31st January 2020 For those who have resolved to make 2020 the year they start prioritising a good night’s sleep, it would not be advisable to make bedtime reading... →
End of the beginning
By: Terence Creamer 24th January 2020 South Africans may be divided on many issues, but on the fact that inadequate electricity supply represents the main risk to the country’s economy,... →
Time to act
By: Terence Creamer 17th January 2020 The return of load-shedding, together with what is a truly dire prognosis for system stability, should surely have been the wake-up call government... →
Road trip to the ʼ20s
By: Terence Creamer 13th December 2019 As we approach the onramp to the 2020’s, the car-wreck of South Africa’s ‘lost decade’ looms large in the rear-view mirror. The confidence boost... →
Huge risk, no urgency
By: Terence Creamer 6th December 2019 The risk posed by Eskom to the fiscus is surpassed only by the risk posed by ongoing electricity shortages to the economy and South Africa’s growth... →
Time to get real about Eskom coal fleet
By: Terence Creamer 29th November 2019 Opinion may be divided on the appointment of Andre de Ruyter as Eskom’s new CEO, but on one point it’s overwhelmingly united: there will be no... →
Mobilise private finance 
By: Terence Creamer 22nd November 2019 One of the key messages in the International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) Africa Energy Outlook 2019 report is that neither State budgets nor... →
Crunch time
By: Terence Creamer 15th November 2019 South Africans are painfully aware of the negative consequences of power shortages. The menace of load-shedding has hung over the country’s economy... →
Backsliding
By: Terence Creamer 8th November 2019 The problems with the way the World Bank’s yearly ‘Ease of Doing Business Ranking’ is compiled are well documented. Nevertheless, the ranking has... →
Urgent Concurrence
By: Terence Creamer 1st November 2019 The very last column in the Integrated Resource Plan 2019 (IRP 2019) table is certain to attract much attention, for the immediate future anyway.... →
