{"id":159607,"date":"2017-02-22T14:45:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T12:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=159607"},"modified":"2017-02-22T14:58:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T12:58:16","slug":"fuel-levy-is-going-up-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/159607\/fuel-levy-is-going-up-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel levy is going up in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motorists will have to pay quite a bit extra for a full tank of fuel come April, after finance minister Pravin Gordhan announced a hike in the fuel levy.<\/p>\n<p>The general fuel levy will increase by 30c\/litre on April 5 2017. This will push the general fuel levy up to R3.15\/litre of petrol and to R3.00\/litre of diesel.<\/p>\n<p>The road accident levy will increase by 9c\/litre of petrol and diesel on April 5 2017, the minister said in his Budget speech for 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists have already experienced two consecutive petrol price hikes in the first two months of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Petrol has increased by 79 cents so far this year, while diesel is already up by 60 cents per litre amid rising oil prices.<\/p>\n<p>The current price for 95 Petrol inland is R13.62, while 0.05% Diesel (wholesale) is R11.63.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/155491\/a-big-hike-in-the-sa-fuel-levy-is-on-the-way-analysts\/\" target=\"_blank\">A big hike in the SA fuel levy is on the way: analysts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motorists will have to pay quite a bit extra for a full tank of fuel come April, after finance minister Pravin Gordhan announced a hike in the fuel levy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":132153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,11811],"class_list":["post-159607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-budget2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159607","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=159607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159635,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159607\/revisions\/159635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}