Real Economy
Maximising impact
By: Terence Creamer 10th July 2020 As South Africa weighs an infrastructure-led economic recovery at a time when, owing to extreme fiscal pressures and warnings of a sovereign-debt... →
Good, sobering and bad
By: Terence Creamer 3rd July 2020 News out for the inaugural Sustainable Infrastructure Development Symposium South Africa – held last week both physically at the Union Buildings,... →
Big green recovery
By: Terence Creamer 26th June 2020 Over the past few months, several commentators have actively sought to join the dots between the current existential threat posed by the... →
Grim picture
By: Terence Creamer 19th June 2020 The damage wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic on the South African economy is becoming horrifyingly clearer by the day. The World Bank warns that... →
Transparent and rational stimulus choices
By: Terence Creamer 12th June 2020 Governments and economists around the world are currently considering how best to respond to the economic shock caused by the Covid-19 pandemic... →
What emergency?
By: Terence Creamer 5th June 2020 News that bid documentation is finally being prepared for the so-called emergency procurement of 2 000 MW of electricity generation from... →
A renewables stimulus
By: Terence Creamer 29th May 2020 There are several stimulus levers that South Africa will consider pulling to extricate itself from what is far more likely to be a serious... →
Disturbingly misguided
By: Terence Creamer 22nd May 2020 Being able to participate, virtually, in several of the parliamentary committee meetings that have taken place during May has been a combination of... →
Department of wasted energy?
By: Terence Creamer 15th May 2020 Many acerbic comments have been made about the folly of government pursuing a strategy to build a ‘new’ national carrier from the carcass of the... →
World in (green) union?
By: Terence Creamer 8th May 2020 In a speech to the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, held by video conference this year owing to the ongoing threat of the Covid-19 virus, International... →
