{"id":44532,"date":"2026-03-03T09:40:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/fuel-prices-rise-from-midnight-tonight-breaking-the-recent-downward-trend\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:40:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:40:32","slug":"fuel-prices-rise-from-midnight-tonight-breaking-the-recent-downward-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/fuel-prices-rise-from-midnight-tonight-breaking-the-recent-downward-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel prices rise from midnight tonight breaking the recent downward trend"},"content":{"rendered":"

South African motorists and energy consumers will unfortunately face increases at the pump and on paraffin and LPG prices from midnight today, Tuesday 3 March 2026, following the latest monthly fuel price adjustment announced by the Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources. <\/p>\n

The adjustment reflects a combination of global oil market pressures and local currency conditions, which together have pushed up the cost of petroleum products over the fuel pricing review period.<\/p>\n

The following changes will take effect across the country:
\n• Petrol (93 and 95 ULP & LRP): increase of 20 cents per litre.
\n• Diesel (0.05% sulphur): increase of 62 cents per litre.
\n• Diesel (0.005% sulphur): increase of 65 cents per litre.
\n• Illuminating paraffin (wholesale): increase of 44 cents per litre.
\n• Illuminating paraffin SMNRP: increase of 58 cents per litre.
\n• Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG): maximum retail…<\/p>\n

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South African motorists and energy consumers will unfortunately face increases at the pump and on paraffin and LPG prices from midnight today, Tuesday 3 March 2026, following the latest monthly fuel price adjustment announced by the Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources. The adjustment reflects a combination of global oil market pressures and local currency […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/fuel%20diesel%20petrol%20(1)-1.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/fuel%20diesel%20petrol%20(1)-1.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}