{"id":42,"date":"2026-09-08T11:23:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T11:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/?p=42"},"modified":"2026-09-08T11:38:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T11:38:49","slug":"record-high-fuel-price-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Record-High Fuel Price Hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy announced the <strong>highest petrol and diesel prices in South African history<\/strong>. Starting next month, <strong>Petrol 93 will jump by R1.81 per litre<\/strong>, and <strong>Petrol 95 will spike by R1.93 per litre<\/strong>. Wholesale diesel is increasing by up to R2.03 per litre. The massive hikes are triggering widespread debate online regarding inflation and the rising cost of living.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Add-a-subheading-2024-01-28T122902.538.jpg.optimal.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Add-a-subheading-2024-01-28T122902.538.jpg.optimal.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Add-a-subheading-2024-01-28T122902.538.jpg.optimal-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Add-a-subheading-2024-01-28T122902.538.jpg.optimal-1024x725.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Add-a-subheading-2024-01-28T122902.538.jpg.optimal-768x544.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy announced the highest petrol and diesel prices in South African history. Starting next month, Petrol 93 will jump by R1.81 per litre, and Petrol 95 will spike by R1.93 per litre. Wholesale diesel is increasing by up to R2.03 per litre. The massive hikes are triggering widespread debate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}