Author: A4KENYA

Commerce house moi avenue.For Sale.

Commerce house moi avenue.

annual income 45m
price 450m
sits on 50×100 and fully let

June 3, 2016
2 700 Hijacked Homes in Jo’burg

Johannesburg’s City Council has set up a special investigating unit comprising members of the Gauteng Hawks, officials from the National Prosecuting Authority, the South African Revenue Service and the city council are working to reclaim buildings effectively stolen from their owners.

The 2 700 hijacked properties are all in Johannesburg’s inner-city region. William Pudkabekwa, head of the special investigation task team says that he is confident that the hijacking of buildings will come to an end very soon.

The city has launched Operation Ziveze that will see 120 buildings being reclaimed. Casual workers will be used to register residents living in those buildings and then technical teams will assess which of the many council by-laws are being broken.

The council will attempt to provide alternative accommodation to residents in hijacked buildings so that these properties can be repaired properly and then legitimately leased to residents.

Pudkabekwa says the Gauteng Hawks have been tasked with arresting building hijackers and already four properties have been raided and reclaimed. He says that two attorneys have also been arrested for their roles in hijacking buildings from the rightful owners.

Apparently building hijackers work with corrupt council officials and use forged documents to convince residents that they have bought the buildings and are entitled to claim rent from them. In some cases, the title deeds for the property are fraudulently altered.

Pudkabekwa says that in some instances hijackers are provided with information about buildings in trust funds or deceased estates and then they move into the building, claiming to have bought it prior to the estate being wound up, and simply start collecting the rents.

Syndicate members have even produce false documents purporting to have bought the buildings at an auction and then demanding that the existing residents pay them immediately.

Apparently many of the owners of buildings in Johannesburg do not know that their buildings have been hijacked because, often, they have abandoned them anyway.

He says that in the case of individual houses, many of the residents are visited at night and warned that the rates and taxes are in arrears and claim that the property has been attached and sold.

Most of these residents are elderly people who fear reprisals from these hijackers and promptly leave the premises allowing hijackers to rent the home to new tenants.

Pudkabekwa says that the syndicates have attorneys, agents, Deeds Office staff and police officials on their payrolls to assist with the fraudulent documentation or the illegal evictions.
http://www.property24.com/articles/2-700-hijacked-homes-in-joburg/12717

June 2, 2016
Hijacked buildings cost Joburg R8bn

Hijacked buildings cost Joburg R8bn
NEWS/CRIME-COURTS /
31 March 2014 at 14:30pm
By: ANNA COX
Johannesburg – The City of Joburg is losing about R8 billion a year in income from illegally occupied buildings and houses.

In some areas of the city, mainly La Rochelle and Rosettenville, about 50 percent of the houses have been “hijacked”.

Testifying in a case against two building hijackers – who were convicted in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court earlier this month – Victoria Ramala, City of Joburg assistant director of the fraud investigation department, testified that about 50 percent of properties in areas such as Rosettenville, La Rochelle, Moffat View and Turffontein had been hijacked, and that only about 50 percent of owners actually recovered their properties.

The crime is now also rife in Yeoville, Bellevue and Berea.

She said that while building hijacking had declined in the CBD from 1 000 to 100, it was now spreading into the suburbs.

Ramala was testifying in the case against Njabulo Mkhwanazi and Stanford Vusi Mringi, who attempted to hijack 16 blocks of flats managed by an agency in Rosettenville.

They each received eight years’ imprisonment for fraud and two years for contraventions of the Prevention of Illegal Eviction Act (Pie).

Mringi also received five years’ imprisonment for the attempted extortion, as well as three months’ imprisonment for being an undocumented foreigner in South Africa.

Ramala testified that hijacking resulted in falling property prices and in suburbs being held hostage to drugs, shebeens, murder, child trafficking and prostitution.

Investigators were often put on hit lists.

She said the City of Joburg investigators’ offices had been broken into and laptops and files stolen. The council was forced to hire armed guards and put in new security systems.

Magistrate Hein Louw, in sentencing the two, said sentences in terms of Pie were “shockingly inappropriate”.

“This offence must be rooted out for our wonderful city to go forward, and we need to rid ourselves of this scourge,” he said, adding that legislation to tackle these problems was sorely lacking.

He said the legislature should develop the common law to include fixed and corporeal property in the offence of theft and should provide a protection programme for State witnesses.

The organised syndicates had connections in sheriffs’ offices, police and courts.

Louw said that where an offence was rife, such as in the case under consideration, and there was a wilful disregard of others’ rights in property and, despite heavy punishment, the offence was still rife, then reform was not the most important aspect in sentencing.

“The court took note of the prevalence of this offence in its jurisdiction. It did not happen on the spur of the moment but was carefully planned,” he said.

Louw added that landlords could not access their properties, could not effect repairs and could not pay their utility bills. The City of Joburg lost income and the vicious circle continued, he said.

Louw said the accused were far from being the “camp fighters” for the poorest of poor – instead they had exploited them further.

In summing up the State’s case, the prosecutor, who asked not to be named, told the magistrate careful planning was done in the process of hijacking buildings, such as putting their own tenants in, the forming of the Johannesburg South Tenants’ Association, arranging marches, and sending representatives to housing board tribunal hearings.

She said it was a difficult crime to investigate and to prosecute as witnesses were transient, intimidated and often foreigners who were too afraid to talk.

She said the motive for the crime was clear – to benefit financially.

The Star
http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/hijacked-buildings-cost-joburg-r8bn-1668762

June 2, 2016
3br bungalow private compound on 33 *66 in Tassia for sale.

3br bungalow private compound on 33 *66 in Tassia for sale.

email info@a4architect.com

June 2, 2016
5 acres for sale, Nyeri, Lusoi.

5 acres for sale, Nyeri, Lusoi. kes 1m per acre negotiable.
With river frontage.
Good for farming.
5 ACRES OF ARABLE LAND IDEAL FOR FARMING, near Chaka, in Naromoru

Nanyuki / Timau / Naro Moru, Upcountry

Price: 1,000,000, per Acre

The 5-Acre arable farmland land is about 7 Km from Nyeri – Nanyuki Road, on the Munyu Road, branching off 7 Km after Chaka and 15 Km before Naromoru. It is easily accessible via all weather roads. Water and power nearby.

Description

Gently slopping land; 100% arableGreat views of Mt Kenya and the AberdaresArea receives adequate rainfall as it is at the foot of Mt. KenyaGreat dam site at the bottom of the landFenced boundariesWater and power available (not connected).Accessible via good murram-surfaced roads off the Nyeri – Nanyuki RoadBranching east towards Mt. Kenya 7 Km after Chaka and 15 Km before Naromoru town2 Freehold Titles i.e. 1.21 Ha (3 Acres) and 0.81 Ha (2 Acres)

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May 31, 2016
Tower Cranes
Direct importation from China can be organised to ensure buyers get the best rates.

Tower Crane Benefits

The ultimate benefit of self-erecting tower crane usage is, quite simply, value — savings (in construction costs resulting from using the crane) that outweigh cost (to rent/own and operate the crane).

Crane owners and users generally report a reduction in manual labor hours equivalent to four or more persons. They also report shortened job completion times — primarily during the framing cycle — of 15% or more, and reduced need for multiple pieces of material handling equipment. And these cranes are much less impactful to the environment as well.

The benefits that drive these results follow, and are accomplished by the crane features and uses described previously:

Improved Effeciency and Productivity
- for crews that rely on their carpenters to perform the requisite manual labor to get their jobs done, a crane can remove much of the manual labor performed by carpenters freeing them up to focus on what you pay them to do — carpentry; the result is an improvement in productivity that also improves carpenters’ morale and leaves them much fresher at the end of a long day
- use of dedicated staging areas results in a more efficient assembly of construction components (wall sections, roof sections, built-up beams, etc.); materials required in the staging area can be placed in the staging area when needed, and, since navigation of other material handling equipment (like telehandlers) is not necessary, the staging areas do not continually have to be moved or disturbed to allow passable access for that equipment
- crane does not require a dedicated operator; rigging and operating can be done by a single person and, with the use of the remote control, the operator can move with the load, reducing the need for someone to “guide” the operator
- single-person operation for many tasks that otherwise would require multiple people (lifting and setting trusses, lifting and setting rafters, etc.)
- minimal footprint of crane leaves much more room on jobsite for material storage, staging areas, etc.
- materials do not need to be handled or moved multiple times to make way for mobile equipment; material can be initially delivered to a “receiving” location and then dispersed a single time to the location of need when needed — the right material, the right quantity, when needed, delivered once
Decreased Equipment and Labor Costs
- a single self-erecting tower crane eliminates the need for multiple pieces of material handling equipment like mobile cranes, telehandlers or all-terrain forklifts, boom trucks, etc.
- reduced fuel costs to operate material handling equipment
- can be used on jobsites with tight boundaries or impassable terrain where the only real material handling option typically is manual labor
- a crane is a “model employee”:
  - it is on-time to work
  - it doesn’t talk back
  - it is reliable and dependable
  - it never gets tired
  - it won’t ever file a workers’ comp claim
- for crews that employ dedicated laborers, the many crane uses (trash removal, material handling and lifting, etc.) reduce much of the need for laborers
- the ability to place materials and assemblies anywhere on the jobsite, including inside the structure (and not just at the perimeter, a limitation of telehandlers for instance), reduces the need for manual labor to perform that task
- quick, easy setup
- jobsite safety is improved due to the decreased need for manual tasks, also drastically reducing workers’ comp claims
Environmental Benefits
- operate on electricity, a much cleaner and quieter option than fuel
- no need to store fuel on-site
- does not leave deep ruts or disturb surrounding terrain as a result of machinery navigating the jobsite
May 30, 2016
film faced plywood
film faced plywood

We offer top quality and medium quality film faced plywood overlaid with phenol or melamine film on both sides. We use Dynea phenolic brown film and Dynea phenolic glue for our high quality FFP. We also offer black color film faced plywood, green color film faced plywood or even PVC shuttering plywood.

Applications: concrete formwork panels / shuttering plywood, walls, floors, roofs, advertising boards, scaffolding .

We can arrange for Direct importation from one of the largest manufacturers in China to ensure buyers get the best deals.

Film-faced plywood with coating for matt, low-pore concrete surfaces. 13 layers of poplar with water-resistent coating on both sides with 120 g/m² phenolic resin, edges sealed all round. Film-faced plywood sheets for concrete surfaces with high quality requirements, the sheeting can easily be worked on (sawing, nailing etc.).

Product advantages:
- High-quality surface;
- Water-resistant;
- Steady geometricity of the sheets;
- Easy handling;
- Long terms use if properly preserved;
- Work-force economy.
Dimensions:
Length: 2500/2440 mm
Width: 1250/1220 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Permissible thickness variation ± 0,5 mm

Instruction for use and storage:
- Sheets should be kept on dry horizontally put beams;
- Sheets should be used without harming their surface or sides;
- After cutting and drilling the edges of the sheets should be covered with water-resistant paint;
- Before use the sheets should be covered with release agent.
Examples of use:
Formwork for construction of floors, walls, columns, etc.

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May 30, 2016
Parklands, Ojijo Road. Offices for Sale.

Parklands, Ojijo Road. Offices for Sale.

Kes 14,500 per sq ft. email info@a4architect.com

May 26, 2016
Scaffolding and Formwork, Nairobi for Sale.

Scaffolding and Formwork, Nairobi for Sale.

For sales inquiries, email info@a4architect.com

0721410684

May 25, 2016

Tile Adhesives and Grout, Concrete Hollow Blocks & Pots for Sale.

REVISED PRICED LIST – 1^ST of May 2016

CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS PRICE LIST
CATEGORY A *(Tile Adhesives and Grout)***	Description *(Dimension/Weight)*	Price *(Incl. VAT & Transport within Nairobi)*
*Adhesives*
“Izomix” Ceramic/Tile Adhesive	25 KG BAG	KSh. 600.00
“Izomix” Granite/Marble Adhesive	25 KG BAG	KSh. 700.00

Grout
“Fuga” 1 KG	1 KG BAG	KSh. 90.00
“Fuga” 3 KG	3 KG BAG	KSh. 220.00

CATEGORY B (*Hollow Blocks & Pots)*
*Hollow Blocks*
“Ilbey” 200	390mm200mm200mm	KSh. 80.00
“Ilbey” 150	390mm200mm150mm	KSh. 70.00
“Ilbey” 100	390mm200mm100mm	KSh. 60.00

*Hollow Pots*
“Ilbey” 300	400mm200mm300mm	KSh. 120.00
“Ilbey” 250	380mm200mm250mm	KSh. 110.00
“Ilbey” 230	370mm200mm230mm	KSh. 100.00
“Ilbey” 150	400mm200mm150mm	KSh. 100.00

FREE DELIEVERY WITHIN NAIROBI AND CLOSE ENVIRONS (NGONG, RONGAI, KITENGELA,JUJA,THIKA,KIAMBU,ATHI RIVER ETC.ALL PAYMENTS EITHER VIA MPESA OR CASH, CHEQUE PAYMENT WITH PRIOR APPROVAL ONLY

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0721410684

May 25, 2016