South Africa
Petrol price to go up in May─── 11:17 Sun, 28 Apr 2019
The Department of Energy announced a petrol price increase of 54 cents a litre for 93 and 95 unleaded for the month of May on Sunday.
Fin24 reports that diesel has a one cent per litre increase, while illuminating paraffin sees a three cents per litre increase.
In a statement the Department of Energy said the international factors amounted to about 54.00c/l on petrol and 1.00c/l on diesel and 3.00 cents per litre.
"The settling of contagion risks from emerging markets provided a foundation for the rand's strengthening trend. This decreased the contribution on the Basic Fuel Price of petrol, diesel and illuminating paraffin by about 13.00c/l," the statement said.
