{"id":118823,"date":"2016-04-02T22:01:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T20:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=118823"},"modified":"2016-04-04T08:25:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T06:25:36","slug":"massive-hike-in-sa-petrol-price-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/118823\/massive-hike-in-sa-petrol-price-on-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive hike in SA petrol price on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African motorists will have to fork out an additional 88 cents for a litre of petrol from Wednesday (April 6, 2016), the Department of Energy said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The petrol price will cost R<span class=\"focusParagraph\">12.62 per litre in Gauteng, and includes a 30 cents a litre rise in the fuel levy announced by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan in his February budget.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This represents a massive 7.5% increase from March, while wholesale diesel will rise nearly 10%, the energy department said.<\/p>\n<p>From 6 April, motorists will pay the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Petrol 95 &#8211; 88c\/litre<\/li>\n<li>Petrol 93 &#8211; 86c\/litre<\/li>\n<li>Diesel &#8211; 97c\/litre<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gordhan noted in his budget speech in February that the general fuel levy will be raised by 30 cents\/litre to R2.85\/litre for petrol and R2.70\/litre for diesel.<br \/>\n<span id=\"midArticle_byline\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on petrol<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/116798\/understanding-south-africas-petrol-price-in-one-infographic\/\">South Africa\u2019s petrol price explained in one infographic<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/116060\/south-africas-petrol-price-vs-the-world\/\">South Africa\u2019s petrol price vs the world<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/105899\/what-the-sa-petrol-price-could-look-like-in-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\">What the SA petrol price could look like in 2020<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African motorists will have to shelve out an additional 88 cents for a litre of petrol from Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":116668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-118823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118823"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118891,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118823\/revisions\/118891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}