‘Use your vote to lower cost of fuel’
People Against Petrol Price Increase (Pappi) national convener Visvin Reddy has urged supporters not to vote for political parties who do not fight against rising fuel prices.
Addressing a group of about 60 people at the# fuel prices must fall march in Durban on Monday, Reddy said: “Next year is an election year and I want every South African to ask the question of any party that asks for your vote.
“You need to ask them: ‘What have you done about the fuel prices‚ have you said anything about it’?” Reddy said.
If political parties have not done anything about fuel prices‚ the public should not vote for them, he said.
“We are saying to political parties‚ irrespective of which party you are‚ speak up for South Africans,” Reddy said.
“Don’t only come to us for votes‚ go there and bring the fuel prices down.
“Don’t come to us next year and ask us for our votes if you have not done anything to bring the fuel prices down.”
In a memorandum accepted by eThekwini deputy mayor Fawzia Peer‚ the organisation demanded that President Cyril Ramaphosa put a temporary hold on all future increases.
The group is calling for fuel prices to be reduced to below R10 a litre.
Peer assured those who were present that she would deliver the memorandum to eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede‚ who would deliver it to the president.