{"id":846998,"date":"2026-01-04T19:36:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T17:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=846998"},"modified":"2026-01-04T19:36:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T17:36:59","slug":"petrol-price-joy-coming-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/846998\/petrol-price-joy-coming-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol price joy coming this week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>South Africa\u2019s pertol price will fall the lowest level in nearly four years following the global drop in crude and a stronger rand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The retail price of 95-octane gasoline will decrease by 3% to R20.75 per liter in the Gauteng province, the country\u2019s economic hub, from 7 January, the ministry of mineral and petroleum resources said in an emailed statement on Sunday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The wholesale price of diesel will decrease by at least 7%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rand gained more than 3% against the dollar in December, helping to bring down costs for the country that imports all of its crude. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With fuel directly accounting for almost 4% of South Africa\u2019s inflation basket and indirectly affecting the cost of most consumer goods, the drop could lower expectations for price growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Annual inflation slowed to 3.5% in November, boosting hopes for an interest-rate cut later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s pertol price will fall the lowest level in nearly four years following the global drop in crude and a stronger rand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":824341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[3994],"class_list":["post-846998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-petrol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846998","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846999,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846998\/revisions\/846999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}