TAKE NOTE: National petrol shutdown postponed
Reddy said their main aim is to bring petrol prices down.
FOUNDER of lobby group, People Against Petrol Price Increase (PAPPI), Visvin Reddy has confirmed that the national shutdown calling for the drop in fuel prices has been postponed. In a video statement on Tuesday, 24 July, Reddy announced that they will be embarking on a national protest demanding a decrease in fuel prices.
In the recording shared widely on social media Reddy said the prediction by the Automobile Association (AA) of another price hike next month was ‘final straw’.
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Today however he said the group’s main aim is to bring fuel prices down and that a meeting confirmed with a representative of the presidency later on today had halted all plans for mass action.
Last week the Automobile Association predicted yet another fuel price hike. If the hike goes ahead, it will be the fourth one this year, bringing the price of petrol to over R16 a litre.
This morning Reddy said: “The presidency has agreed to meet with us this afternoon. For this reason we have postponed the march until further notice.”
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He added, “We cannot and we will not accept these exorbitant fuel prices as it’s stealing from South Africans, especially the poor.”
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