China News Agency, Johannesburg, July 6 (Reporter Wang Xi) Since July 6, local time, the price of gasoline and diesel in South Africa has risen sharply again. High oil prices have caused the South African people to be under huge economic pressure.

  Among them, the average price of gasoline 93 and 95 per liter increased by 2.37 rand and 2.57 rand (about 1.19 yuan and 1.29 yuan respectively), and the average price of diesel increased by 2.30 rand (about 1.15 yuan per liter). Yuan), the average price per liter of lighting paraffin increased by 1.66 rand (about 0.83 yuan).

It is worth mentioning that the current average price of gasoline across South Africa has exceeded the 25 rand (about 12.5 yuan) mark per liter.

  Since the beginning of this year, under the combined influence of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and the sharp depreciation of the South African currency rand, fuel prices in South Africa have been rising and hitting new highs.

Immediately, prices of food and other daily necessities rose across South Africa.

South Africans are under increasing economic pressure.

  According to the South African transportation department, due to dissatisfaction with the sharp rise in fuel prices, on July 6th, on the truck freight channel from Nelspruit, South Africa to Mozambique, artificial traffic jams occurred to protest the rise in oil prices: some South Africans passed the The way cars drove up State Route 4 to block it protested the sharp rise in fuel prices.

Affected by this, the bus service of this section is currently completely suspended, and the South African government is closely monitoring the development of the incident.

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