{"id":15995,"date":"2025-11-24T10:14:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-motorists-to-face-high-fuel-price\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:28:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:28:03","slug":"sa-motorists-to-face-high-fuel-price","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-motorists-to-face-high-fuel-price\/","title":{"rendered":"SA motorists to face high fuel price"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">South African (SA) motorists to dig deeper into their pockets to fill up their cars this coming festive season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Preliminary data from the Central Energy Fund shows the price of petrol will likely go up by between 19 and 24 cents per litre, depending on the grade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The price of a litre of diesel is expected to increase by between 75 and 92 cents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">It&#8217;s anticipated that the price of a litre of paraffin will go up by about 82 cents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The probable fuel price increases come at a time when many will be embarking on long journeys to various destinations for the Christmas holidays.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources is expected to announce the official fuel price adjustments for December at the end of this week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14477,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,44],"class_list":["post-15995","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"SA motorists to dig deeper into their pockets to fill up their cars","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19994,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15995\/revisions\/19994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=15995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}