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Standby generator demand South Africa, as the grid recovers
Eskom's diesel bill is down R4.87 billion and load reduction is down 88.6%. Public buyers are still tendering generators. What a brand should read from that.
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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.
Global practice, translated. A method or a tool that works on a hundred-million-rand site in Europe changes something specific for a contractor in Gauteng, or it changes nothing, and these pieces say which. Carbon accounting, data centres, the systems the panel runs on: what each one means for a firm of forty people, and what it does not.
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What carbon tax does to a cement or steel price
CBAM cost EU importers 75,36 euro a tonne in early 2026. The carbon number that reaches an invoice in Boksburg is the R308 a tonne South Africa charges at home.
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150MW of data centre, and which trades it buys
MTN is targeting 150MW across South Africa and Nigeria, and the trades that sell into a data centre are settled in the main contract before the shell goes up.
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The Arabella Brief
What changed this week, and what it costs you on Monday.
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.