{"id":47734,"date":"2026-10-10T11:24:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T09:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47734"},"modified":"2026-10-10T11:24:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T09:24:45","slug":"sa-automobile-association-slams-recent-fuel-price-hike","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-automobile-association-slams-recent-fuel-price-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Automobile Association slams recent fuel price hike \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Automobile Association of South Africa (AA) has strongly condemned the latest steep surge in domestic fuel prices, warning of severe financial distress for motorists as early projections signal an additional increase of nearly R5 ($0.28) per litre next month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The warning comes as initial data from the Central Energy Fund indicates potential November increases of up to R4.58 ($0.26) per litre for 95 petrol and $0.28 per litre for illuminating paraffin, driven by surging international oil prices and Rand volatility.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the worsening crisis, AA Chief Executive Officer Bobby Ramagwede expressed deep disappointment over government&#8217;s inaction to buffer consumers against international market shocks. Ramagwede noted that between R7 and R8 ($0.40 to $0.45) per litre of the current retail fuel price consists of fixed taxes and levies unrelated to the basic fuel commodity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The motoring body is urging National Treasury to temporarily set aside non-essential fuel levies and tax components until global oil markets stabilise, providing immediate relief to cash-strapped households, commuters, and the broader economy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":46724,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,44],"class_list":["post-47734","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"SA Automobile Association warns of near  petrol increase next month ","published_date":"2026-10-10 10:46:54","news_description":"SA Automobile Association warns of near  petrol increase next month ","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47734","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\/47734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47735,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47734\/revisions\/47735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}