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BULLETIN 16 March 1 pm

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In this bulletin:

# The GOOD party leader says most South Africans want to help fix the country
# The Energy Regulator approves petroleum pipelines system tariffs for Transnet
# And, cricket: The Proteas are to play in a tri-series in Pakistan

# GOOD party leader, Patricia de Lille says most South Africans are good people who want to help fix the country. De Lille spoke at the launch of the party’s 2024 election manifesto in Johannesburg. She adds South Africa doesn’t need either a strong private sector, or a state-regulated economy, the country needs both:  

# The Energy Regulator has approved the petroleum pipelines system tariffs. It will allow Transnet  to realise a 5.98-percent increase in allowable revenue from 6.8-billion-rand in 2023/2024 to 7.2-billon-rand in the 2024/2025 financial year. Nersa spokesperson Charles Hlebela says the tariffs come into effect next month:

# City Power’s efforts to exclude essential services and businesses from load-shedding in Johannesburg are yielding results. The local energy team has been reconfiguring the network and entering load curtailment agreements with most businesses and essential service customers. This initiative aims to minimise disruptions to critical infrastructure. City Power will exclude the Hursthill and Lenasia Treatment Works, Rand Water’s Robertville transit water pump station in Roodepoort and Fleurhof Substation from load-shedding from next week. Fourteen other Johannesburg Water’s sites have been identified for the exclusion.

# This week’s plunge of a Boeing on a Latam Airlines flight between New Zealand and Australia could reportedly be ascribed to a mistake in the cockpit, and not any flaw in the plane. Unnamed US industry officials told Wall Street Journal a flight attendant may have mistakenly hit a switch on the pilot’s seat, leading to a motorised feature pushing the pilot into the controls and pushing the plane’s nose down. The pilot later regained control, and the plane landed safely. Scores of passengers were injured.

# And, cricket: Pakistan’s Cricket Board says it will host South Africa and New Zealand in a one-day international tri-series, the country’s first tournament involving three nations after a gap of 20 years. International cricket only fully returned to Pakistan in 2020, following attacks on the Sri Lankan team bus in Lahore in 2009. Pakistan was stripped of its right to co-host the World Cup two years later, with security concerns lingering in the aftermath of those attacks. The country last hosted a tri-series in 2004, which involved Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.

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