Compliance
OHS prohibition notice on a building, and who fixes it
In Soweto the notice went to the tenant, the repair runs through the landlord, and only an inspector can say the building may reopen.
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Facilities management
Site & delivery
Refurbishment tender cancelled and re-advertised, then what
Six public buyers have put refurbishment work back on eTenders after an earlier round. What a buyer can find out and change before the second advert.
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Cost & decisions
As-built drawings and handover, what you are owed
Britain has been consulting on a minimum handover pack. JBCC already obliges your contractor to hand one over, but leaves what is in it to your contract data.
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Property & facilities
Nine centres changed hands. Who maintains them?
Dipula is buying nine shopping centres for R2 billion, and on the day of transfer somebody has to know who fixes the air conditioning.
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Compliance
Contractor compliance check South Africa: five registers
The check is the same five registers for one firm or twenty. A panel makes it recur, and a buyer running seven identical tenders pays for it seven times.
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Cost & decisions
Contractor matching service when the tender comes back empty
Public buyers re-advertise the same refurbishment and the same maintenance contract. The board shows why a second advert rarely fixes the first.
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Cost & decisions
Municipal tariffs rose 8,1% and 10,2% in July 2026
Headline inflation fell to 4,3% while the services a building actually buys went up by twice that, which is why the maintenance budget broke.
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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.