Real Economy
Training and opportunity
By: Terence Creamer 20th August 2021 If South Africa is serious about ensuring that its transition to a low-carbon economy is a just one, then there is no question that the re-training... →
Window of opportunity
By: Terence Creamer 13th August 2021 South Africa has a narrow window of opportunity to attract significant levels of international finance to support what is becoming an increasingly... →
Hostile climate
By: Terence Creamer 6th August 2021 As the countdown clock to the Glasgow climate conference ticked past the 100-day mark late last month several deadly natural disasters, from floods... →
Our thoughts at this difficult time
30th July 2021 2021 is proving to be another difficult year for South African business. Despite rising minerals prices and some credible signs that initiatives... →
Self help
By: Terence Creamer 23rd July 2021 Hidden among data-rich economic commentary and an array of analytical figures and tables, the World Bank’s most recent South Africa Economic Update... →
Fresh uncertainty?
By: Terence Creamer 16th July 2021 One warning raised amid the euphoria generated by President Cyril Ramaphosa’s June 10 announcement that Schedule 2 of the Electricity Regulation... →
Bridge to the future?
By: Terence Creamer 9th July 2021 It doesn’t seem possible to resolve most societal problems until they are. This is especially true for something as complex and multifaceted as the... →
Big unifying idea
By: Terence Creamer 2nd July 2021 South Africa does not lack for plans. What the country does lack, however, is a big unifying idea around which its plans, policies and programmes... →
Growth Engines
By: Terence Creamer 25th June 2021 June could well go down as the month that South Africa finally turned the key on the starter motors of some important growth engines. The precise... →
Public paralysis
By: Terence Creamer 18th June 2021 Images of the remarkable Gift of the Givers drilling for water outside the Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital, in Coronationville, Gauteng, may... →
