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Fill up: Fuel hike by midnight tomorrow
NATIONAL NEWS - South African motorists will have to dig even deeper into their pockets as massive fuel price hikes loom this week.
The Department of Energy has announced that 95 unleaded petrol is going up by 88 cents a litre and 93 unleaded is increasing by 86 cents a litre.
At the coast, 95 octane petrol will cost R12.39 cents a litre and 93 octane R12.06.
Diesel (0.05% sulphur) will increase by 96 cents a litre and diesel (0.005% sulphur) will increase by 98 cents a litre.
Illuminating paraffin goes up 76c cents per litre and LPG gas will increase by 110 cents per kilogram.
The price increase take effect at midnight tomorrow.
The department said the reason for the hike includes the 30 cents a litre increase in fuel levies announced by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan in his recent budget speech.
According to the department it could have been worse had the Rand not strengthened against the US Dollar during the period under review.
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