{"id":67162,"date":"2014-08-29T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=67162"},"modified":"2014-08-29T15:56:08","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T13:56:08","slug":"petrol-price-drops-67c-for-sa-motorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/67162\/petrol-price-drops-67c-for-sa-motorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol price drops 67c for SA motorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BodyP1\">The price of all grades of petrol will drop by 67 cents a litre next week, the energy department said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">The price of diesel would decrease by 25.38 cents a litre, and that of illuminating paraffin by 25 cents a litre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">The price of LP Gas would fall by R1.08 a kilogram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">The new prices would come into effect on Wednesday (3 September).<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">The department said Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson had approved a retail margin increase of 4.2 cents per litre from Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">This increase was to accommodate the nine percent salary increase for fuel pump attendants and cashiers.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday (25 August), the\u00a0Central Energy Fund (CEF) noted that lower international product prices \u2013 coupled with the slight weakening of the rand against the dollar \u2013 pointed an over recovery of 68.3 cents per litre of petrol.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the petrol price<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Big petrol price drop may be coming\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/66716\/big-petrol-price-drop-may-be-coming\/\"><strong>Big petrol price drop may be coming<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Another fuel hike on the way\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/64604\/another-fuel-hike-on-the-way\/\"><strong>Another fuel hike on the way<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Big petrol price hike for SA motorists\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/62855\/big-petrol-price-hike-for-sa-motorists\/\"><strong>Big petrol price hike for SA motorists<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Petrol price relief for SA motorists\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/56747\/petrol-price-relief-for-sa-motorists\/\"><strong>Petrol price relief for SA motorists<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of all grades of petrol will drop by 67 cents a litre next week, the energy department said on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":48793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,3994],"class_list":["post-67162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline","tag-petrol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67162","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67162"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67176,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67162\/revisions\/67176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}