Cost & decisions
Steel safeguard duty and what it does to your rate
ITAC added South Korean hot-rolled steel to the safeguard on 4 September 2026 at 11 percent, and the origin of your fabricator's coil now sets part of the rate.
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Technology
What carbon tax does to a cement or steel price
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.
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Cost & decisions
What your spec is worth in a municipal tender
Municipal distributors sell 44% of South Africa's electricity, and a correctly specified protection device only survives their tender if the document says so.
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Technology
150MW of data centre, and which trades it buys
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.
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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.