Cape Town – All grades of petrol will cost 51c a litre less from next Wednesday, the Department of Energy announced on Friday. Diesel 0.05% sulphur and diesel 0.005% sulphur will decrease by 75.82c and 73.82c respectively, while liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) will decrease by 56.0c/kg, illuminating paraffin (wholesale) by 70c/l, and illuminating paraffin (SMNRP) by 93c/l, the department said in a statement on Friday. All petroleum product prices will drop with effect from August 1 2015. The department said the average international product prices of petrol, diesel and illuminating paraffin decreased during the period under review, while the […]
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Truck ban will hurt consumers
Consumers will bear the brunt if the Department of Transport passes a law banning heavy trucks from roads during certain hours, the Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI) said on Monday. The new regulations state that goods vehicles exceeding 9 000kg cannot use public roads between 06:00 and 09:00 and between 17:00 and 20:00 from Monday to Friday. In April, Transport Minister Dipuo Peters announced the move in response to the rising road death toll and the department said the intended regulations would be published for public comment and discussion later in 2015. The change will incur costs for […]
Continue readingPetrolprys styging vir Julie kan 50 cent per liter wees
Omie trap die petrol dat ons vinniger kan ry” moet liefs nie meer gesing word nie, want die petrolprys gaan oor net meer as ’n week wéér met minstens 50c per liter styg. Volgens syfers van die bedryfsliggaam vir vulstasies, die Fuel Retailers Association, was die onderverhaling op 95-oktaan-petrol Maandag meer as 50c per liter. Op 93-oktaan was dit meer as 39c per liter. Diesel sal nie so skerp styg nie en ’n onderverhaling (dus styging) van tussen 17c en 18c per liter op die groothandelprys het Maandag gegeld. (Nuwe syfers word nie Dinsdag uitgereik nie omdat dit ’n openbare […]
Continue readingIn Maart vanjaar het die invoertarief op koring amper drievoudig verhoog, van R157 tot R461 per ton, in ’n poging om die kwynende plaaslike bedryf van ondergang te red.
Welkome reën het sedert verlede week wyd oor die Wes-Kaap geval, tot die verligting van koringboere wat vroeër in kurkdroë grond begin plant het. Volgens Andries Theron, vise-president van Graan SA en koringboer van die Swartland, is boere in die Wes-Kaap verheug oor die uitkoms. “Die huidige reën is nog nie te laat om ’n goeie oes vanjaar te verkry nie. Ons het die afgelope jare bietjie bederf geraak met goeie vroeë reën, en dis net menslik om bekommerd te raak as die reën laat kom, want ons sit baie geld in die grond.” Vol graanskure Lae koringpryse is steeds […]
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Continue readingIs food shedding next, asks Grain SA
Bloemfontein – There will be food shortages if the government’s land reform policy went ahead, Grain SA has warned. “We have electricity load shedding. Is food shedding next? Will we take turns at eating?” asked Jannie de Villiers, CEO of Grain SA during a media conference at the Nampo show in Bothaville. “We are not saying no to land reform, but we are looking for plans that can ensure food security in the country. But grain producers say no to minister Gugile Nkwinti’s [Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform] 50:50 land ownership plans. “These plans fall outside government’s policy […]
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