Global practice translated for a contractor working here: what a method or a tool changes for a firm of forty people, and what it does not.
CBAM certificates cost EU importers 75,36 euro a tonne in the first quarter of 2026. The carbon number that reaches an invoice in Boksburg is the R308 a tonne South Africa charges at home.
MTN is targeting 150MW across South Africa and Nigeria as a minority partner, and the trades that sell into a data centre are settled inside the main contract long before the shell goes up.
The Arabella Brief
One email on a Friday, covering the week from Friday to Thursday so the week is closed when it is written. What actually changed, everything with a date on it, one development run through what it means for a contractor with forty people, and what we got wrong. A thin week is a short issue.