{"id":635918,"date":"2026-10-04T08:22:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T08:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/635918\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T08:22:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T08:22:27","slug":"record-fuel-prices-in-october-now-unavoidable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/635918\/","title":{"rendered":"Record fuel prices in October now unavoidable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG &#8211;\u00a0A fuel price shock for motorists next week is now unavoidable.<\/p>\n<p>The latest data suggests that petrol will push higher than R30 per litre for the first time in history and diesel will also reach a record high.<\/p>\n<p>A combination of higher oil prices and a weaker Rand is waging war on the pockets of consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the Central Energy Fund suggests an increase of R3.29 for 95 unleaded petrol and R3.19 for lower sulphur diesel.<\/p>\n<p>95 unleaded petrol rose to a new record above R28 per litre in June this year before stabilising.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s now set to rise to just above R30 per litre in Gauteng.<\/p>\n<p>Diesel hit a record price above R31 per litre in May, and it&#8217;s now set to soar to a new record of R33.24.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude oil has fallen today by around 3% to trade below $100 per barrel but that won&#8217;t put the brakes on next week&#8217;s price hike.<\/p>\n<p>Fuel prices change on the first Wednesday of each month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JOHANNESBURG &#8211;\u00a0A fuel price shock for motorists next week is now unavoidable. The latest data suggests that petrol&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":["post-635918","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\/635918","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=635918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}