Creamer Media's ‘Construction 2024/25: Adapting to new realities’ report explores key aspects of the South African construction sector, offering a comprehensive overview of its challenges and opportunities.

The report examines the sector's prolonged decline, driven by reduced demand for office and retail developments, currency depreciation, unsustainable price wars, and delayed or nonpayment by public-sector clients.

Broader issues, such as high lending rates, municipal dysfunction, and the rise of the construction mafia, have compounded these difficulties, forcing many companies, particularly smaller contractors, to scale back operations or exit the market. Additionally, flawed procurement practices, narrow profit margins, and substandard project execution continue to hinder progress, despite the sector's crucial role in South Africa’s economic recovery.

Creamer Media’s ‘Water 2024/25: Averting a crisis’ report delves into the critical state of South Africa's water sector, challenged by ageing infrastructure, municipal debt, and declining water quality, as reflected in the latest Blue and Green Drop reports. It explores key developments, such as the establishment of the National Water Resources Infrastructure Agency and amendments to water legislation, while addressing the growing impacts of climate change, population growth, and poor maintenance on the country’s water systems.

The report also examines ongoing efforts to address these challenges, including water infrastructure projects, such as the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, as well as maintenance programmes, and innovations such as biological solutions for invasive plants.

Also discussed are the roles of public–private partnerships and regulatory advancements in driving improved water efficiency, governance, and resource management.

Looking ahead, the report emphasises the need for urgent collaboration among stakeholders to secure South Africa's water future. It notes the need for increased investment, structural reforms, and decisive action to ensure equitable access to water and sanitation services to prevent a crisis on the scale of that in the country’s electricity sector.

South Africa’s energy crisis hit a peak in 2023, with record loadshedding affecting homes, businesses, and the economy.

Creamer Media’s ‘Electricity 2024/25: Tariffs, renewables and transmission challenges’ report explores the power outage challenges, including State-owned power utility Eskom’s struggles with aging coal-fired power plants, corruption, and electricity theft. It also looks at the broad-based approach by government to turn things around.

From new renewable-energy projects to reducing debt, including perhaps most pressingly clawing back debt owed by municipal customers, this report highlights what is being done to secure South Africa’s energy future and the challenges that remain.

Creamer Media’s ‘Projects in Progress 2024’ report provides a comprehensive overview of developments in South Africa’s economy, as reflected through some of the major infrastructure projects under way across key sectors such as electricity, transportation, water and mining. 

South Africa’s telecommunications landscape continues to expand and evolve rapidly, forming a critical part of the economy and connecting an increasingly diverse population and businesses. As the country adapts to a growing demand for connectivity, mobile and fixed-line broadband services are expanding at an unprecedented rate. Commercial 5G networks have been launched, and fibre networks are extending to more homes, businesses, and rural areas, driving digital inclusion and enhancing access to essential services like education, finance, and healthcare. Despite challenges such as power disruptions, vandalism, and infrastructure theft, the sector remains resilient and continues to see significant investments, especially in next-generation technologies.

Creamer Media’s ‘Telecommunications 2024: SA's telecoms landscape expanding and evolving’ report examines South Africa’s telecommunications sector in respect of its connectivity profile, the trends in the sector, the challenges it faces, policy and regulatory developments, as well as the companies that are driving the sector forward.

Creamer Media's Projects in Progress 2024 report presents a comprehensive overview of the upcoming and ongoing infrastructure projects in South Africa, highlighting key developments in sectors such as electricity, mining, and transportation. Notable projects include the Gas Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme, designed to secure 3 000 MW of new-generation capacity through land-based gas-fired power facilities, and the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme, which aims to procure 2 583 MW from various wind and solar projects. Additionally, significant investments are being made in the mining sector, with Menar's coal and anthracite projects set to boost coal production to 20-million tons a year by 2025. The report also covers major transportation infrastructure projects, such as the N2 Wild Coast Toll Road megabridge projects. The Mtentu bridge, part of this project, will become one of the world's longest main-span-balanced cantilever bridges and the highest bridge in Africa, with a 260 m main span and a height of more than 220 m above the river valley. These projects, among others detailed in the report, reflect substantial capital investments aimed at bolstering South Africa's infrastructure and energy sectors.