Add your voice to stand against fuel price hikes

Whether you are commuting to work, managing a business, or keeping your family budget afloat, you already know that transport costs are at breaking point.  Now, an unavoidable reality is heading straight for us:  on the first Wednesday of November, South Africa will see another massive fuel price increase.

Daily recovery data from the Central Energy Fund confirms an impending price shock of up to +R4,58 per litre on petrol and +R2,91 per litre of diesel.  This is not speculation—it is arriving in just a few short weeks, and it will immediately drive up grocery prices, commuter fares, and logistics costs across the nation.

Yet while households and businesses prepare for this blow, government is quietly preparing a compounding double-tax:

1. At the Pump:  The Road Accident Fund has formally approached National Treasury to hike the fuel levy to R3,00 per litre (a 33% increase).

2. At the Licence Counter:  The Dept of Transport is drafting regulations to introduce a brand-new mandatory tax directly onto your annual vehicle licence disc renewal.

The Government CAN step in, and they HAVE stepped in when the public demanded it earlier this year, when runaway fuel costs threatened to stall our economy, public pressure forced National Treasury to listen: they have suspended fuel taxes, cutting petrol levies by up to R3.00/litre and reducing the diesel levy to zero between April and June 2026.

They proved that emergency tax relief is completely viable when citizens stand together and demand it.  Now is the time to apply that pressure again. When thousands of us participate, we can place undeniable legal and political pressure on the Minister of Finance and Cabinet to intervene.

Through Dear South Africa, we can formally demand that government:

1. Immediately reinstate emergency General Fuel Levy cuts (at least R1.50 to R2.00/litre) to shield consumers against the November spike.

2. Halt and withdraw the proposed mandatory licence disc renewal tax before it is gazetted into the law.

3. Reject the RAF’s R3.00/litre levy hike until systematic litigation waste and administrative backlogs are fixed.

4. Deregulate retail petrol pricing into a maximum price ceiling so service stations can compete and offer discounts at the pump.

This is not a petition. Under Section 33 of the Constitution, National Treasury and the Minister of Transport, and Parliamentary Committees are legally required to evaluate every individual submission on record.

Have your say by clicking on the link below.

Have a say on government’s plan to increase fuel price even more – Dear South Africa