Real Economy
I saw the crescent . . . 
By: Terence Creamer 12th December 2025 As the sun sets on 2025, South Africa’s long-awaited recovery is becoming visible like the first sliver of a waxing crescent days after a new moon.... →
Shift in mood
By: Terence Creamer 5th December 2025 The complex and multidimensional nature of life in any country means that more than one thing is invariably true at the same time. Moreover, these... →
Rooted in reality?
By: Terence Creamer 28th November 2025 When South Africa transitioned to democracy in the 1990s, and when climate constraints were not yet on the agenda, energy policy was arguably the... →
Important shift
By: Terence Creamer 21st November 2025 There are signs that the long-promised change to the composition of government spending – from consumption to capital investment – is at last... →
Scrap continues
By: Terence Creamer 14th November 2025 When ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) initially announced in January that it would be closing the Newcastle mill and winding down its long-steel... →
Head spinning
By: Terence Creamer 7th November 2025 Given the many moving parts in play currently within the electricity industry, there is a real risk of becoming distracted from what is truly... →
Shocked, not surprised
By: Terence Creamer 31st October 2025 The latest edition of the Integrated Resource Plan for electricity, dubbed IRP 2025, has been Gazetted and its contents have not really come as any... →
Sustaining Growth
By: Terence Creamer 24th October 2025 It is now widely accepted that we live in a misinformation era – one where it has become acceptable, even fashionable, to be anti-science.... →
Content over form
By: Terence Creamer 17th October 2025 South Africans are naturally strongly opposed to any more hefty electricity hikes, having borne above-inflation increases for years while power... →
Debt and theft
By: Terence Creamer 10th October 2025 The twin crises of surging municipal arrear debt owing to Eskom and rising electricity theft have been lurking for years, and with all efforts to... →
