Fuel diesel petrol price increase

The price of petrol and diesel will increase at midnight on Tuesday in a blow to Mzansi motorists. This is how much more you’ll be paying. Image: Helen Rickard / Flickr

Petrol relief? Parliament to consider SLASHING fuel price – by 33%

Is the tide turning on our fuel price nightmare? Parliament will now entertain proposals to dramatically REDUCE petrol costs in SA.

Fuel diesel petrol price increase

The price of petrol and diesel will increase at midnight on Tuesday in a blow to Mzansi motorists. This is how much more you’ll be paying. Image: Helen Rickard / Flickr

Parliament is to hold an urgent debate on the fuel price next week, following a significant amount of pressure applied by the DA. The opposition’s petition to slash petrol costs by 33% has over 127 000 signatures – and the matter will now be presented to the National Assembly.

Parliament to hear arguments for cutting fuel price by 33%

The DA believe they’ve secured a major concession, here. But there’s still a long way to go, should this major reduction in value get the go-ahead. Any debate would have to win round the ruling ANC, and even then, no further decision on the fuel price is expected before August 2022.

How would a 33% reduction in the fuel price work?

Make no mistake, the party is convinced it has an enactable plan that can relieve the pressure on households across the country.

They are lobbying Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana to scrap *ALL TAXES AND LEVIES* on the current petrol price, which makes up one-third of the costs. The only state intervention in place at the moment is the R1.50 reduction on the General Fuel Levy.

Will the government listen to the people?

Kevin Mileham is the Shadow Minister for Energy. He has assured the public that the instant removal of fuel taxes can be facilitated by the government, and in a statement published on Tuesday, Mileham implored Parliament ‘to do the right thing’.

“Parliament has agreed to urgently debate the DA’s demand for the ANC government to slash fuel prices, by cutting the exorbitant 33% tax on fuel. In late May the DA set out simple demands to the ANC Government that would have dramatically slashed the fuel price.”

“Yet the ANC Government chose not to act. The DA calls on all Parties in Parliament to unite around this motion – to be debated on Wednesday 15 June – to show care for South Africans buckling under the price of fuel.”

“The South African public is outraged at the exorbitant fuel price, and roundly rejects the outrageous taxes on fuel. The ball is now in the court of Parliament, and the Parties in Parliament, to do right by the people of South Africa.”

Kevin Mileham