As we rightly suspected the government has now increased the price of fuel. While this latest price increase will no doubt be painful to businesses and ordinary Zimbabweans who are struggling it is not as high as we feared.

New ZERA prices July

The new prices are as shown above. Diesel is now selling for $5.84 and Blend Petrol is now going for $6.10 per litre. All those messages circulating on WhatsApp showing prices as high as $10 per litre are obviously fake news.

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