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Martin Creamer is Creamer Media Publishing Editor of Engineering News and Mining Weekly.

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Energy giants must commit to no-carbon solutions, not low-carbon stalling
30th June 2023 By: Martin Creamer

People were allowed to smoke freely until smoking in public places was restricted on health grounds. This was done because inhaling of smoke was declared a human health risk. The risk created by... 


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We must go all out to make South Africa a country of choice
23rd June 2023 By: Martin Creamer

We South Africans can do nothing about our past but we can do something about our future and among the key needs is for us is to have a sense of common purpose around the rebuilding of this... 


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Well done to South Africa’s private sector for showing positive climate commitment
16th June 2023 By: Martin Creamer

South Africa shows some good signs in wanting to fight climate change. Some government departments take achieving carbon neutrality as seriously as it should be taken. But overall, it is the... 


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South Africa’s very willing private sector must be allowed to help our economy
9th June 2023 By: Martin Creamer

South Africa’s private sector is showing great willingness to help to revive the South African economy and it is noteworthy that in many areas the public sector is working alongside business and... 


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We must start rolling out the red carpet to investors and cease rolling out the red tape
2nd June 2023 By: Martin Creamer

One day journalists asked the head of a big mining group why he was no longer investing in South Africa but investing very heavily in South America. His reply was: “When I go to South America to... 


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Give mining a new deal and it’ll strike a mighty blow against poverty
26th May 2023 By: Martin Creamer

There is no doubt that mining, with its multiplicity of forward, backward and lateral linkages, is a poverty buster in waiting. Shadow Mineral Resources Minister James Lorimer MP was spot on when... 


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Something simply must be done to make investing in mineral exploration attractive
19th May 2023 By: Martin Creamer

In the past, the private sector owned and controlled South Africa’s mineral endowment and the public sector of the day looked on and collected the taxes. But from 1994, the public sector took over... 


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Well done, South Africa, for collaborating globally on the green technology front
12th May 2023 By: Martin Creamer

When it comes to green energy technology advances, South Africa is showing creditable wisdom. The partnership of our Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) with Johannesburg Stock... 


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South Africa must ensure that capital can be raised at small end of the stock exchange
5th May 2023 By: Martin Creamer

The bulk of South Africa’s long-term savings assets, something like 90%, are managed by less than a dozen institutions, which are obliged by the Association for Savings and Investment South Africa... 


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We must maintain and expand all-important electricity transmission grid
28th April 2023 By: Martin Creamer

The national electricity transmission grid that has served us well down the years now needs very special attention. Upping our electricity generation game is one thing but failure to match that... 


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South Africa must go full tilt into solar and wind without looking back
21st April 2023 By: Martin Creamer

A country can never have too much electricity. Available energy allows business to expand without fear of being without it. The way ahead for South Africa is to go full tilt into solar and wind... 


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South Africa dare not make another mistake with new cadastre system
14th April 2023 By: Martin Creamer

One cadastre mistake resulted in South Africa failing to benefit from two up cycles in mining. A second mistake could be even worse. To avoid a repeat of what happened last time around, full... 


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South Africa needs coal and iron-ore rail lines to become competitive without delay
7th April 2023 By: Martin Creamer

Worsening logistics constraints and rising electricity supply shortages have made South Africa a very difficult place in which to do business. While electricity supply gets the big headlines, the... 


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South Africa must open the way for critical minerals exploration
31st March 2023 By: Martin Creamer

The world over, countries are declaring and finding critical minerals needed to transition to green energy. Raw materials used in wind turbines, solar power plants and batteries are being... 


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South Africa’s musts: fix Eskom, boost renewables, extend grid, restore rail, defeat crime
24th March 2023 By: Martin Creamer

Turning energy and logistics threats into opportunities is a must for all South Africans during this tough time in the country's history. South Africans must show unyielding determination the... 


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Zealous attention must be given to skills development
17th March 2023 By: Martin Creamer

The mining industry in particular has been drawing attention to the shortage of skills and the critical need to close the skills gap, which has been exacerbated by yet another emigration wave that... 


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South Africa must be fixed, irrespective of how hard that will be to achieve
10th March 2023 By: Martin Creamer

The time has come for influential South Africans to collaborate more intensively than ever to put this country back on to a decent path. Greylisting, talk of people we pay sabotaging us, energy... 


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Decarbonisation is essential for the wellbeing of the South African economy
3rd March 2023 By: Martin Creamer

Virtually every listed company that reports these days is taking meaningful steps to decarbonise, which is essential. Exports with no carbon emission reduction are going to penalised financially,... 


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South Africans must go all out to turn energy headwinds into energy tailwinds
24th February 2023 By: Martin Creamer

There was a time when South Africa had so much cheap electricity it didn’t know what to do with it. Currently, there is nothing stopping us from returning that situation except ourselves. As things... 


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South Africans must collaborate to remove all growth impediments
17th February 2023 By: Martin Creamer

President Cyril Ramaphosa is to be applauded for expressing determination to remove all impediments in the way of the sustained growth of the South African mining industry. For South Africa, mining... 


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This is the route South Africa must take to energy security
10th February 2023 By: Martin Creamer

South Africans must reactivate our built and paid-for but dormant open cycle gas turbine plants, which can be brought into service immediately and removed as quickly. At the same time, every bit of... 


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Time for South Africans to collaborate to solve the electricity crisis
3rd February 2023 By: Martin Creamer

South Africans need to put aside their electricity differences and work together to solve the electricity crisis. None of us can function without electricity and wasting time denouncing Eskom does... 


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South Africa must embrace 9 GW of power private sector can offer
27th January 2023 By: Martin Creamer

South Africa’s private sector has a total pipeline of 9 GW of energy projects in solar, wind, gas and battery storage on offer, Minerals Council South Africa has assured. By expediting those... 


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South Africa must fast-track search for critical minerals
20th January 2023 By: Martin Creamer

With critical minerals essential for the success of global plans to green the planet, South Africa must help itself and the rest of the world by fast-tracking the search for these minerals. Far too... 


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South Africa must seize industrial growth opportunity that climate action brings with it
16th December 2022 By: Martin Creamer

South Africa’s public sector and private sector are united in highlighting the industrial growth that mitigating climate change brings with it. The green hydrogen summit not only had South Africa’s... 


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South Africa’s badly lagging cities must be incentivised to double down on decarbonisation
9th December 2022 By: Martin Creamer

Only the tiniest fraction of South African real estate is carbon neutral. On the current trajectory, it will take century or more to decarbonise them. It is estimated that 80% of buildings that... 


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Smash crime to smithereens to open way for meaningful economic growth
2nd December 2022 By: Martin Creamer

Economic growth and crime are mutually exclusive and cannot coexist, which is why South Africa Inc must collaboratively and collectively smash crime to smithereens. The exploding rates of murder,... 


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Hats off to Motsepe Foundation for launch of $2m green energy prize
25th November 2022 By: Martin Creamer

There is nothing more suited to our well-endowed African continent than energy that is green and clean. We have superior sun, prime wind and in many places strongly flowing water. Those are the... 


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Way to go is to generate renewables to cut carbon, green hydrogen to cut diesel, petrol
18th November 2022 By: Martin Creamer

Specification is now in place for the responsible retirement of stranded high-carbon assets and the winding down of those that will not live out their entire geological life. Available for this... 


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Climate change is undeniably the defining challenge of our time
11th November 2022 By: Martin Creamer

More and more people the world over are declaring unequivocally that climate change is undeniably the defining challenge of our time. What’s more, many companies have made praiseworthy strides... 


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Green electrons, green molecules come with colossal advantage of energy sovereignty
4th November 2022 By: Martin Creamer

South Africa is tailor made for the generation of electrons from renewable sun and wind endowments and the linked production of green molecules using renewable solar and wind power. Available to... 


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Africa must look to continent’s great sun to provide energy sovereignty
28th October 2022 By: Martin Creamer

Saddling the African continent with old fashioned energy is lunacy. Those in Africa wanting to hold on to fossil fuels should not expect the planet-saving world to make exceptions of a continent... 


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Private sector key must be allowed to unlock South Africa’s beckoning opportunities
21st October 2022 By: Martin Creamer

The private sector holds the key and the public sector must be enabled to use it – to unlock South Africa’s many economic opportunities and open the way for the fiscus to get quick additional... 


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Development conversation across all ideologies essential
14th October 2022 By: Martin Creamer

Development is the only conversation that South Africa should be having at the moment, former Anglo America CEO, director and consulting business executive Mark Cutifani said at the Joburg Indaba... 


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Cadastre system essential if exploration opportunity is to de grasped
7th October 2022 By: Martin Creamer

The key enabler of transparency in applying for prospecting rights and mining rights is a cadastre system. Everyone in the know is insistent that a prospective country like South Africa simply... 


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