Compliance
BCCEI wage rates, and who owes them on a mine
Earthworks, hauling and dust suppression on a mine can fall under the civil engineering council, whatever the site. How to check before the principal asks.
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Subcontracting
Cost & decisions
SANRAL routine road maintenance tender, nine provinces open
SANRAL has at least 40 routine road maintenance contractor lots open in nine provinces, and eleven compulsory briefings fall between 12 and 19 October.
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Cost & decisions
Client matching for contractors, from closed tenders
A tender that closed with no award posted is a buyer who needed the work done. Five on Gauteng ground from late September 2026, and the call to make.
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Cost & decisions
Subcontractor matching, and the mall that used 17 SMMEs
iTonka Square in Springs was rebuilt in eight months by a trade list anyone could read. By opening day, every one of those packages was long gone.
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Site & delivery
Construction work in the R2 trillion pipeline
Of 263 projects worth R1,99 trillion, the 54 in documentation are the ones that become tenders. The 82 under construction are somebody else's order book.
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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.