More than 120 000 support DA’s call to scrap tax levy on fuel
2 June 2022
Note to Editors: Please find attached English and Afrikaans soundbites by Kevin Mileham MP.
More than 123 000 South Africans have supported the DA's call to cut the exorbitant taxes on fuel.
More than a third of the price South Africans pay for fuel is a tax levy intended to buffer National Treasury’s coffers. While that money could be spent on road infrastructure, education, health care or social development, it is in fact looted by corrupt cadres and comrades or wasted on vanity projects that have been captured by the politically connected.
The past 28 years under an ANC government have bled South Africans dry, and we simply cannot afford the exorbitant fuel prices and resulting increases on all other necessities. The coming months will see South Africans fall deeper into debt and hunger and hopelessness will soar.