GOOD Statement by Brett Herron,
GOOD Secretary-General
28 April 2026
The GOOD party welcomes the extension of the fuel levy relief until June 2026 announced by the Ministers today.
The impact of the US attack on Iran on oil prices, and thus fuel prices, demanded our government’s domestic intervention to protect South Africans from a radical fuel price shock.
South Africans are under enormous financial pressures, and a volatile fuel price is an additional financial burden household must navigate.
While we welcome the Ministers’ response to the fuel price crisis, we are concerned about the intention to halve the relief from June 2026. There’s no indication that the US war on Iran will be resolved by then or that the price of crude oil will reduce sufficiently to warrant that adjustment to the temporary fuel levy relief.
That decision is best taken when we get closer to June and have the benefit of real information about the war, the availability of oil and its pricing.
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