Drop in fuel price

THE Department of Energy has announced that the wholesale price of diesel will decrease from Wednesday.

The price of diesel, 0.05 percent sulphur and 0.005 percent sulphur, will decrease by 76c and 78c a litre respectively.

The wholesale price of paraffin will go down by 63c a litre and the single maximum national retail price will decrease by 84c a litre.

The price of 95 octane petrol will drop by 3c a litre.

However, the price of 93 octane will remain the same.

The maximum retail margin of LP gas will increase by 50c/kg. THE EFF launched a scathing attack on former president FW de Klerk and called for his Nobel Peace Prize, which he received alongside Nelson Mandela, to be revoked.

The backlash followed a report by the Agence France-Presse on a letter De Klerk wrote to The Times in the UK calling the student movement against colonialist Cecil PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma urged South Africans to register to vote in this year’s local government elections. Delivering his New Year’s message on Thursday, Zuma said it was important to exercise this right.

“We will also consolidate the gains of democracy in 2016, by John Rhodes “folly”.

De Klerk was quoted as saying: “My people – the Afrikaners – have greater reason to dislike Rhodes than anyone else. He was the architect of the Anglo-Boer War that had a disastrous impact on our people. Yet the National Party government never thought of removing his name from our history.”

Register and use your vote, says Zuma

taking local government transformation and performance forward, through the ‘Back to Basics campaign’.

“We should all register to vote… and use our hard-won right to vote. We should remember that we all share the responsibility of building our country,” Zuma said.