{"id":9277,"date":"2026-01-04T18:15:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T18:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=9277"},"modified":"2026-01-04T18:15:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T18:15:04","slug":"sa-fuel-price-drops-to-4-year-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=9277","title":{"rendered":"SA fuel price drops to 4-year low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"textFreeArticle\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">South Africa\u2019s fuel price will fall to its lowest level in nearly four years following the global drop in crude and a stronger rand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The retail price of 95 octane will decrease by 3% to R20.75 ($1.26) per litre in Gauteng province, the country\u2019s economic hub, from 7 January, the\u00a0Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources said in an emailed statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The wholesale price of diesel will decrease by at least 7%.<\/p>\n<div class=\"visible-sm-block visible-xs-block m1010\">\n<div class=\"ad-container-wrapper\">\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read:\u00a0Rand jumps to three-year high [Jan 2026]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rand gained more than 3% against the dollar in December, helping to bring down costs for the country that imports all of its crude.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With fuel directly accounting for almost 4% of South Africa\u2019s\u00a0inflation basket\u00a0and indirectly affecting the cost of most consumer goods, the drop could lower expectations for price growth.<\/p>\n<p>Read:<\/p>\n<div class=\"ApplePlainTextBody\" dir=\"auto\">Rand is losing its reputation\u00a0for wild swings<\/div>\n<div class=\"ApplePlainTextBody\" dir=\"auto\">Lower inflation target set to\u00a0reshape rand\u2019s long-term path<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Annual inflation\u00a0slowed\u00a0to 3.5% in November, boosting hopes for an interest rate cut later this month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a9\u00a02026\u00a0Bloomberg L.P.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Moneyweb\u2019s in-depth finance and business news on WhatsApp here.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\">\n            !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n            {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n                n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n                if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n                n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n                t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n                'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n            fbq('init', '779812924991616');\n            fbq('track', 'PageView');\n        <\/script>#fuel #price #drops #4year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s fuel price will&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[7146,830,5277,100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}