{"id":28362,"date":"2026-03-11T10:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=28362"},"modified":"2026-03-11T10:56:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:56:36","slug":"theres-no-immediate-risk-of-fuel-shortages-in-sa-government","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/theres-no-immediate-risk-of-fuel-shortages-in-sa-government\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s no immediate risk of fuel shortages in SA: Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The Mineral and Petroleum Resources Department in South Africa (SA) says there is no immediate risk of fuel shortages in the country.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The Department says it is in continuous contact with local oil companies to ensure the stability and security of fuel supply.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">According to a statement released on Tuesday night, the government says it is closely monitoring developments in the Middle East and their potential impact.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">SA\u00a0currently has two operational crude oil refineries, the National Petroleum Refiners of SA and Astron Energy, in addition to the Sasol Secunda coal-to-liquid plant.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20722,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-28362","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"SA\u00a0currently has two operational crude oil refineries.","published_date":"","news_description":"SA\u00a0currently has two operational crude oil refineries.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/28362","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\/28362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28363,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/28362\/revisions\/28363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=28362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}