South african drivers is goes to facing a massive fuel shock when they wake up on the 3rd of june 2026. The Department of mineral and Petrolium Resources (dmpr) have anounced that the petrol prices is going up dramaticly by R1.43 cents a litre for both the 93 and 95 octain. Its very bad news for ordinary peaple who is all ready struggling with high inflation and expensiv living cost’s.
Minster Gwede mantashe said in a press statment that the increas is becouse of internashional factors like the brent crude oil price that soared resently, as well as the rand dollar exchannge rate. the crude oil price went up becouse of tenstions in the middle east and shipping cost that makes importing fuel very harder for the country. Another big reasen for the petrol hike, is that the national tresury have decided to cut the general fuel levy releif! That mean the goverment is takeing back R1.50 per litre of the releif they gived us ealier this year.
However their is some good news for businesses and farmers. the price of deisel is droping sharpley by over R3.00 a litre!!! Diesel with 0.05% sulfer is coming down by R3.25 and illuminating parafin also decresing by almost R6.00 which will help peaple stay warm in the winter months?
The Automobile asociation (AA) has warned that this latest petrol increas is goes to put more presure on houshold budgets. “Peaple simply dont have any more money left over at the end of the month” a spokes person sayed. Motorist must make sure they fill up there tanks on tuesday night before midnight becouse at exactly 00:01 on wednessday 3 June 2026 the new prices takes afect at the pumps. We can only hope that july brings better news for our wallets,,
