JUST IN: EFF loses court bid to interdict fuel levy increase
The 4% hike was announced by the Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, when he tabled the revised 2025 Budget Speech for the third time in May and will be effective from Wednesday, 4 June.
In challenging the proposed hike, the EFF argued that the fuel levy increase places an unjust burden on the working class and the poor, who are already reeling from rising costs of living, stagnant wages, and ongoing economic hardship.
The party maintained that the levy is both economically unjust and unconstitutional, as it deepens inequality and undermines access to essential goods and services.
Moreover, the EFF had argued that the standing committee on finance sits on Wednesday 4 June and it is only then that such an increase can be approved. Not before, as the 2025 fuel levy increases have been slated to go into effect the same day.
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