Real Economy
Implementation risks
By: Terence Creamer 6th March 2020 It is difficult to remember a time when economists and commentators were so off the mark when making forecasts about what a Finance Minister would... →
Energy B-HAG
By: Terence Creamer 28th February 2020 In light of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement that measures will be taken in the coming months to fundamentally change the trajectory of... →
Out of step
By: Terence Creamer 21st February 2020 There were indications already at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that South Africa was out of step with the main themes occupying... →
Walter Mitty Syndrome
By: Terence Creamer 14th February 2020 The South African government would not be able to build an emergency hospital in ten days, let alone an emergency power station. For evidence, look... →
In need of a quick win
By: Terence Creamer 7th February 2020 Any rational observer of the South African condition, will probably have grudgingly come to accept that it’s going to take a significant amount of... →
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... →
