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DARK HUMOUR
9th June 2023 By: Darlene Creamer
DARK CLOUD: South Africans can see and feel the devastating effects of daily power cuts on their lives and livelihoods. By contrast, the country’s literacy crisis is far less visible but its impacts are likely to be even more devastating if not addressed. The 2021 Progress in International Reading and Literacy Study shows that the percentage of Grade 4 learners, children aged either nine or ten years old, who cannot read for meaning in any language has increase to over 81%. In 2016, the figure stood at 78%.
DARK CLOUD
2nd June 2023 By: Darlene Creamer
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CHOPPY WATERS
26th May 2023 By: Darlene Creamer
DANGER SIGNS: South Africa’s non-aligned foreign policy stance was relatively straightforward to maintain when the world was globalising and democratising. Conditions have turned decidedly hostile in recent years, however, with geopolitical tensions manifesting not only in trade wars but in real ones. If South Africa is to sustain its approach, it will need to become far more proactive in defining what it means rather than reacting to developments in a way that could see it either sliding unwittingly into one or other camp, or becoming entirely irrelevant on the international stage.
DANGER SIGNS
19th May 2023 By: Darlene Creamer
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MIXED MESSAGES
12th May 2023 By: Darlene Creamer
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WINTER WARNING
5th May 2023 By: Darlene Creamer
BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE: Even for those who have been living through the decline and have, thus, become somewhat oblivious, the dismal state of South Africa’s infrastructure is now almost impossible to ignore. Be it collapsed power pylons, railways stations stripped to concrete ruins, chronic cable theft, or the potholes that pockmark just about every road, the decay is frighteningly visible. For President Cyril Ramaphosa, and perhaps some particularly robust entrepreneurs, there’s an upside. “There are indeed opportunities in this crisis,” he told investors at the fifth Investment Conference earlier this month.
BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE
28th April 2023 By: Darlene Creamer
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FLIP FLOPS
21st April 2023 By: Darlene Creamer
TROLLEY HAS BOLTED: The decision by the Competition Commission to probe price hikes across a basket of five fruits and six vegetables is understandable, given the level of food inflation over the past year. However, it is also a case of the trolley having already bolted and it is far from clear what impact the inquiry will have on the current cost-of-living crunch. A report on the findings of the investigation is scheduled for only September 2024, by which time conditions are likely to be materially different.
TROLLEY HAS BOLTED
14th April 2023 By: Darlene Creamer
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HARD TIMES
7th April 2023 By: Darlene Creamer
WAVES OF PAIN: It has been an incredibly difficult start to the year, with intense loadshedding and a spike in crime having left individual and investor confidence decidedly soggy. While there have been improvements in the performance of some Eskom power stations, high utilisation factors leave these plants vulnerable as demand gets set to rise during winter. On the social and political fronts, meanwhile, things often heat up in South Africa as temperatures dip, particularly when there are outstanding wage negotiations, and elections loom.
WAVES OF PAIN
31st March 2023 By: Darlene Creamer
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BOILING POINT
24th March 2023 By: Darlene Creamer
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MEGA PROJECT
17th March 2023 By: Darlene Creamer
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SHOCKWAVES
10th March 2023 By: Darlene Creamer
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JUGGLING ACT
3rd March 2023 By: Darlene Creamer
BLUNT INSTRUMENT
BLUNT INSTRUMENT
24th February 2023 By: Darlene Creamer
SHOOTING SELF IN FOOT: The recent mining gathering in Cape Town once again highlighted the failure of government and its State-owned companies to provide the policy, administrative and infrastructure frameworks and capacity needed to take full advantage of existing mining activity, as well as to stimulate the exploration needed to unlock the next generation of critical minerals. Collapsing rail and power networks, together with dismal law enforcement, saw the country missing out on the most recent commodity boom. And the lack of a functional cadastre means that it could well miss out on the next one too.
SHOOTING SELF IN FOOT
17th February 2023 By: Darlene Creamer
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STATE OF NATIONAL ANXIETY
10th February 2023 By: Darlene Creamer
PULLING THE RUG
PULLING THE RUG
3rd February 2023 By: Darlene Creamer
SINKING FEELING: Given internal ANC political dynamics, it looks like it will be difficult to reverse the decision to move the large State-owned enterprises from the Department of Public Enterprises to their line departments. For Eskom, such a shift is particularly problematic, as it will further blur the policy lines between what is good for Eskom as opposed to the electricity supply industry as a whole – and there is a clear divergence. From a governance perspective, it’s akin to moving the deck chairs while the ship sinks.
SINKING FEELING
27th January 2023 By: Darlene Creamer
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