Real Economy
How should SA respond?
By: Terence Creamer 31st January 2025 Be it apartheid, State capture or even the government of national unity, South Africans know firsthand the importance and influence of politics on... →
Perfect storm?
By: Terence Creamer 24th January 2025 There is every reason to expect that 2025 will be a year of disruption. It’s an expectation informed largely by the reality of widespread national... →
Unsurprising yet painful 
By: Terence Creamer 17th January 2025 News that the struggling Newcastle Works will close at the end of this month is yet another painful reminder of South Africa’s ongoing... →
Trading blows
By: Terence Creamer 13th December 2024 Trade and industrial policy will play a more prominent and potentially more destabilising role given that President-elect Donald Trump has... →
Time to make IRP updating routine
By: Terence Creamer 6th December 2024 After the false start of January when the draft Integrated Resource Plan 2023 (IRP2023) was released to much criticism and even incredulity, an... →
From crisis to . . .
By: Terence Creamer 29th November 2024 It was fascinating to listen to Eskom chairperson Mteto Nyati outline, in a recent exchange with the Centre for Development and Enterprises’ Ann... →
Far-reaching consequences
By: Terence Creamer 22nd November 2024 By the time you read this, the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) will be about halfway through its nationwide public hearings into... →
Trading in focus
By: Terence Creamer 15th November 2024 Few would disagree that aggregators and traders will have an important and increasing role in South Africa’s future electricity market. Even in the... →
Private embrace
By: Terence Creamer 8th November 2024 Building much-needed public infrastructure and scaling up private sector participation in the delivery of such infrastructure emerged as the key... →
Ongoing adaptation
By: Terence Creamer 1st November 2024 It is positive that the current framework used by government to procure new generation capacity from independent power producers (IPPs) is under... →
