Fuel price set to increase in August
The price of fuel is set to go up again next month.
The Automobile Association (AA) has made the prediction based on unaudited mid-month data.
It says petrol looks likely to cost 87 cents more per litre.
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The price of diesel is set to rise by 58 cents a litre, and paraffin by 56 cents.
The AA says fuel prices were already trending higher before the looting began, but that now the rand/dollar exchange rate has spiked.
It’s asking South Africans to limit all non-essential travel as there is a possibility of fuel shortages.
Refinery SAPREF declared force majeure this week due to the violence, and has temporarily shut its facility in Durban.
