Real Economy
Moment of consequence?
By: Terence Creamer 5th July 2024 As is the case for the country as a whole, South Africa’s industrial development is at “a moment of fundamental consequence”, to borrow a line from... →
Lack of transparency
By: Terence Creamer 28th June 2024 The tapering of loadshedding has arguably provided the Eskom board and executive team with some much-needed time and space to consider the future... →
Defusing CBAM
By: Terence Creamer 21st June 2024 South Africa is strenuously opposing the European Union’s (EU’s) Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) that, under its evolving design and... →
Reality check
By: Terence Creamer 14th June 2024 Regardless of composition, there are certain realities that South Africa’s new government cannot avoid. The first is an unemployment rate so high... →
Public protection
By: Terence Creamer 7th June 2024 The application by Eskom to preserve and reserve grid connection capacity for independent power producers (IPPs) participating in public... →
Worth the ink?
By: Terence Creamer 31st May 2024 The National Council of Provinces’ (NCOP’s) recent approval of the Electricity Regulation Amendment (ERA) Bill has far-reaching implications for... →
Unintended consequences?
By: Terence Creamer 24th May 2024 It is highly unlikely that South Africa would have made the progress it has in stabilising electricity supply and setting in place initiatives to... →
Green stimulus
By: Terence Creamer 17th May 2024 South Africa’s manufacturing sector is in dire need of stimulus. In its recently released ‘Industrial Policy & Strategy Review’, the Department of... →
Coalitions and reform
By: Terence Creamer 10th May 2024 With the 2024 election days away, attention is turning to the governance arrangements that will prevail nationally and in key battleground... →
In the weeds
By: Terence Creamer 3rd May 2024 South Africa has gone some way in starting to reform its electricity industry, which has been failing the country visibly for nearly two decades.... →
