{"id":32813,"date":"2026-04-23T10:28:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T08:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=32813"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:28:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T08:28:40","slug":"sa-fuel-price-surge-hits-multiple-sectors","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-fuel-price-surge-hits-multiple-sectors\/","title":{"rendered":"SA fuel price surge hits multiple sectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Automobile Association (AA) has raised growing concern over rising fuel prices and the knock-on effect of fuel surcharges across multiple industries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">AA Chief Executive Officer Bobby Ramagwede attributes the pressure to ongoing tensions between the United States and Iran, which have disrupted global crude oil supply and contributed to a record high fuel price adjustment by SA&#8217;s Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Earlier this month, local motorists were hit hard when the price of petrol jumped.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Ramagwede warns that motorists could face yet another blow, citing SA&#8217;s limited fuel reserves as a major vulnerability in an already volatile global market.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20722,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,44],"class_list":["post-32813","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Automobile Association has raised growing concern over rising fuel prices","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32813","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\/32813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32814,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32813\/revisions\/32814"}],"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=32813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=32813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}