DA pickets against skyrocketing fuel prices
30 May 2022
The Democratic Alliance in the Northern Cape today staged a picket in Kimberley against the fuel hike that is due to come into operation on Wednesday. See pics here, here and here.
People in this province are already struggling to make ends meet with the escalating food prices that are directly affected by exorbitant fuel prices. Now people will have to choose between spending R25 on another litre of petrol to get them to work and their children to school, or on a bread and a tin of beans to feed their family.
The fuel price is clearly out of control and in a province as vast as the Northern Cape, where road transport is the only option, it is a total disaster.
The majority of the Northern Cape is rural. People who live in places like Rietfontein, Kuboes and Soebatsfontein, have to travel long distances, at increasingly high costs, to get to the nearest town to collect their grants, to get to a hospital, or even to get to a police station to lay a criminal charges.