HeyJaredNeva Makgetla
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Latest publication
- Sep 22, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Businessday
- Top 100K sites
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- Jul 28, 2026
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NEVA MAKGETLA | Eskom’s new high-risk strategy (opens the original)
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Eskom has always been the 800-pound gorilla in the room: it does whatever it wants, and the rest of us bear the cost. Its power appears in escalating tariffs, raising its revenues from 1.9% of GDP in 2008 to 4.6% now, despite a 20% fall in its electricity sales. Now it has hatched a plan to increase its revenues further by selling cut-price electricity to energy-intensive users. That proposal poses serious risks for the country. Under the new plan Eskom will sell electricity at a third of the av
NEVA MAKGETLA | The roots of municipal debt to Eskom (opens the original)
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It is easy to blame the soaring municipal debt to Eskom on fiscal illiteracy or corruption. However, that approach ignores the fundamental causes of the debt. Most immediately, unchecked and extravagant Eskom tariff increases since 2008 have fuelled consumer resistance and squeezed municipal budgets. More fundamentally, the debt reflects the broader failure to address South Africa’s extraordinary economic inequality, which leaves many households and businesses unable to pay for basic services. U
NEVA MAKGETLA | Making employment a priority (opens the original)
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When it comes to job creation, South Africa’s government has a distracted boyfriend problem. Sure, we’re committed to it. But when it comes to economic targets and policies we end up pursuing every other priority instead, from GDP growth to exports to investment and technological progress. Somehow we never get around to economic projects that aim mostly to generate livelihoods on a really large scale. Scaling up job creation is critical because the country remains an outlier on joblessness. Inte
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