Real Economy
Pressure mounting
By: Terence Creamer 29th August 2025 With industrial and trade policy firmly back on the global agenda, South African industry is becoming more vocal in highlighting the threats posed... →
Policy first
By: Terence Creamer 22nd August 2025 The message delivered by Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa that the reforms under way in the electricity sector are... →
Reset needed
By: Terence Creamer 15th August 2025 There has been an important, yet largely overlooked, shift in South Africa’s approach to meeting its goal of providing universal electricity access... →
Two steps back?
By: Terence Creamer 8th August 2025 The idiom ‘one step forward, two steps back’ has surely arisen in the minds of those who have been monitoring developments in the electricity... →
Emerging pictures
By: Terence Creamer 25th July 2025 A picture has started to emerge of the potential economic fallout of America’s existing, as well as potentially imminent, tariffs on South African... →
Broken wing
By: Terence Creamer 18th July 2025 The decision by US President Donald Trump to implement ‘reciprocal tariffs’ of 30% on those South African goods not specifically exempted or... →
Transparency needed
By: Terence Creamer 11th July 2025 South Africa’s recent trade policy interventions have been nowhere near as attention grabbing as President Donald Trump’s April 2 Rose Garden... →
Good, bad, disturbing
By: Terence Creamer 4th July 2025 One of the marvels of the post-Covid era is the ongoing ability to participate in live events that are many miles away. Although technology fails... →
Deadline looms
By: Terence Creamer 27th June 2025 Memories of that ‘dim-the-lights’ Oval Office ambush have been enveloped in a fog of billionaire-bro brawls, immigrant raids and protests, the... →
Procurement poser
By: Terence Creamer 20th June 2025 Few would argue that South Africa’s procurement of electricity generation capacity from independent power producers (IPPs) is one of the country’s... →
