South Africa petrol prices

On Wednesday, the government is planning to increase the price of petrol by around R3.80 per litre, to an outrageous R25 per litre.

We will fight this fight on behalf of every South African battling to make ends meet because we care about their plight. The General Fuel Levy of R3.93 per litre is little more than a corruption tax. Like any other consumer goods, it is only reasonable that the same market competition determines the final price at the pump. As it is, millions of South Africans are already going hungry, and things are about to get a lot worse. By cutting wasteful expenditure on luxuries like catering and entertainment, VIP protection and vehicles, and by uprooting state capture corruption that has cost South Africa at least R1.5trn so far, the General Fuel Levy of R3.93 per litre can be scrapped entirely. There are three elements to the plan. As we did with the R22m flagpole plan, South Africans need to put our national foot down and say a firm NO. According to Tiger Brands, bread, maize meal and baking flour will rise by 15–20% in the coming six months. The second-best time is now. The state-owned Foskor – which has historically produced 80% of SA’s fertiliser requirements – now produces only 20%, owing to ubiquitous cadre-deployment-induced mismanagement. He paints a grim national picture, especially given the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. One example: the blockade of the Ukrainian port of Odessa is trapping 25 million tonnes of grain, equivalent to the annual consumption of all the world’s least developed countries. There are other ways to feed the voracious appetite of the Treasury crocodile besides simplistically hiking petrol prices and risking another populist spree of anarchy as we saw i n KwaZulu-Natal. DA leader John Steenhuisen writes that Wednesday’s R3,80 per litre petrol hike will worsen South Africa’s economic crisis, increase hunger and add to general deprivation, hitting the poorest and most desperate the hardest.