{"id":33733,"date":"2026-05-05T09:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=33733"},"modified":"2026-05-05T09:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:57:18","slug":"fuel-price-surge-set-to-deepen-pressure-on-sa-consumers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/fuel-price-surge-set-to-deepen-pressure-on-sa-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel price surge set to deepen pressure on SA consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Analysts are warning that a sharp increase in fuel prices in South Africa (SA) is set to add further pressure on already strained consumers.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The statement follows new price hikes taking effect on May 6, 2026.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources says the retail price of all grades of petrol will rise by $0.20\u00a0(R3.27) per litre, while diesel is set to increase by $0.37\u00a0(R6.19) per litre.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The price of illuminating paraffin will also climb, up by $0.25 (R4.22) per litre.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14477,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,44],"class_list":["post-33733","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":"Sharp increase in fuel price in SA"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33733","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\/33733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33734,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33733\/revisions\/33734"}],"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=33733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=33733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}