{"id":366953,"date":"2026-03-31T04:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/366953\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:14:14","slug":"motorists-brace-for-wednesdays-massive-petrol-price-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/366953\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorists brace for Wednesday&#8217;s massive petrol price hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG &#8211; The Middle East War will hit motorists in the pocket this week.<\/p>\n<p>Latest data from the Central Energy Fund shows that 95-octane petrol will rise by R5,82 per litre.<\/p>\n<p>93-octane will go up by R5,32 and diesel may rise by up to R10,27 a litre. That excludes a fuel levy hike of around 21-cents per litre.<\/p>\n<p>The fuel price is adjusted on the first Wednesday of each month. This means one of the steepest increase will arrive on April Fools Day.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s no joke for a motorist driving a car with an average 60-litre fuel tank who will pay around R360 more to fill up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JOHANNESBURG &#8211; The Middle East War will hit motorists in the pocket this week. Latest data from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":["post-366953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}