Creamer Media’s Real Economy Year Book has been divided into separate reports under the banner Real Economy Insight, and investigates key developments in the automotive, construction, electricity, oil and gas, road and rail, steel, water, manufacturing, pumps, coal, gold, iron-ore and platinum sectors. This six-page brief is a synopsis of key developments in the steel sector over the past 12 months. It provides an overview of the global and South African steel markets, the sector’s unexpected rebound, the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on South Africa and the measures proposed to mitigate some of the challenges facing the country’s steel sector.

Creamer Media’s Real Economy Year Book has been divided into separate reports under the banner Real Economy Insight, and investigates key developments in the automotive, construction, electricity, oil and gas, road and rail, steel, water, manufacturing, pumps, coal, gold, iron-ore and platinum sectors. This six-page brief is a synopsis of key developments in the pumps sector over the past 12 months. The brief considers South Africa’s depressed pump manufacturing sector and how the advent of smart pumps and the Industrial Internet of Things is affecting the sector.

Creamer Media’s Real Economy Year Book has been divided into separate reports under the banner Real Economy Insight, and investigates key developments in the automotive, construction, electricity, oil and gas, road and rail, steel, water, manufacturing, pumps, coal, gold, iron-ore and platinum sectors. This five-page brief is a synopsis of key developments in the manufacturing sector over the past 12 months. It provides an overview of the global and South African manufacturing sectors amid the Covid-19 pandemic, power supply disruptions and the progression of manufacturing into the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Creamer Media’s Real Economy Year Book has been divided into separate reports under the banner Real Economy Insight, and investigates key developments in the automotive, construction, electricity, oil and gas, road and rail, steel, water, manufacturing, pumps, coal, gold, iron-ore and platinum sectors. This six-page brief is a synopsis of key developments in the energy sector over the past 12 months. It provides an overview of the South African government’s first steps towards increasing distributed generation capacity and the challenges confronting State-owned power utility Eskom, as well as activities under the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme and Risk Mitigation Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme.

Creamer Media’s Real Economy Year Book has been divided into separate reports under the banner Real Economy Insight, and investigates key developments in the automotive, construction, electricity, oil and gas, road and rail, steel, water, manufacturing, pumps, coal, gold, iron-ore and platinum sectors. This six-page brief is a synopsis of key developments in the oil and gas sector over the past 12 months. The brief considers South Africa’s refining sector’s uncertain future, imports and the country’s transition to a hydrogen economy.  

Creamer Media’s Real Economy Year Book has been divided into separate reports under the banner Real Economy Insight, and investigates key developments in the automotive, construction, electricity, oil and gas, road and rail, steel, water, manufacturing, pumps, coal, gold, iron-ore and platinum sectors. This five-page brief is a synopsis of key developments in the construction sector over the past 12 months. It provides an overview of the South African government’s intended infrastructure-led economic recovery and the outlook for the sector.

Creamer Media’s Real Economy Year Book has been divided into separate reports under the banner Real Economy Insight, and investigates key developments in the automotive, construction, electricity, oil and gas, road and rail, steel, water, manufacturing, pumps, coal, gold, iron-ore and platinum sectors. This four-page brief is a synopsis of key developments in the automotive sector over the past 12 months. It provides an overview of South Africa’s automotive market, the significant investments made by original equipment manufacturers and the road ahead for the industry.

Global water use has increased by a factor of six over the past century and continues to increase steadily at about 1% a year, as a result of an expanding population, economic development and ever-changing consumption patterns, according to United Nations Water. The equitable provision of water and sanitation has, however, not developed apace with this growth. In South Africa, government’s failure to deliver water to communities has been highlighted by the Covid-19 pandemic, showing the blatant disparities within South Africa’s water and sanitation sectors, with many arguing that the prevailing water shortages have mostly been caused by politics and bad decisions. Creamer Media’s Water 2021 Report focuses on South Africa’s water sector in the context of water regulation, planning and management, water supply and sanitation, water quality, water and sanitation infrastructure, as well as funding. The report also provides an overview of the state of global water affairs.

Creamer Media's Energy Roundup is a monthly report providing a synopsis of energy-related news from South Africa. The August 2021 roundup covers activities in July 2021 and includes details of a new Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies analysis of South Africa’s coal value chain; the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment draft amendment report for public comment on a proposed ash and gypsum co-disposal facility owned by State-owned power utility Eskom; and the South African Photovoltaic Industry Association’s calls on the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition to clarify its approach to localisation in the South African solar photovoltaic sector.

How to recover from the global Covid-19 pandemic continues to occupy the minds of business leaders and policymakers. There is growing consensus that it is simply not good enough for economies to ‘bounce back’ and return to their previous development pathways. ‘Bouncing forward’, however, will require companies and governments to adopt strategies and policies that begin to repair the health, supply-chain, social, environmental and climate fault lines that have been distressingly exposed during the pandemic. For countries, such as South Africa, where these fault lines were already deeper and wider before Covid than in most other countries, the nature of the recovery will be as important as its pace. This Real Economy Yearbook points to the fact that across just about every sector featured, from automotive to mining, there is an acceptance that a different approach is needed if the foundations are to be laid for more socially, environmentally and economically sustainable industries. For South Africa, these transitions represent not only a great risk but also a tremendous opportunity.