{"id":18682,"date":"2022-12-22T09:25:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T09:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/public-transport-workers-uniondecrease-in-petrol-prices-not-enough"},"modified":"2022-12-22T10:50:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T10:50:04","slug":"public-transport-workers-uniondecrease-in-petrol-prices-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/public-transport-workers-uniondecrease-in-petrol-prices-not-enough","title":{"rendered":"PUBLIC TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION:Decrease in petrol prices not enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eswatini. <\/strong><\/span><b>Sticks Nkambule, the Secretary General of the Swaziland Transport, Communication and Allied Workers(SWATCAWU) says they welcome the decrease in petrol prices but it\u2019s enough.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Government,through the Ministry of Natural Resources and Energy announced that disease will decrease by R2.00 while petrol will decrease by R1.50.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe welcome the gas decreases announcement, however it is not enough. Transportation costs in particular to the road passenger section is still high and the section is struggling to stay afloat. We call for substantial decreases,\u201d said the SWATCAWU Secretary General.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\">Eswatini<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Eswatini. Sticks Nkambule, the Secretary General of the Swaziland Transport, Communication and Allied Workers(SWATCAWU) says they welcome the decrease in petrol prices but it\u2019s enough. Government,through the Ministry of Natural Resources and Energy announced that disease will decrease by R2.00 while petrol will decrease by R1.50. \u201cWe welcome the gas decreases announcement, however [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":18681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,12],"tags":[234,248,249],"class_list":["post-18682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-eswatini","tag-eswatini"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PUBLIC TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION:Decrease in petrol prices not enough - Eswatini<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sticks Nkambule, the Secretary General of the Swaziland Transport, Communication and Allied Workers(SWATCAWU) says th ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/public-transport-workers-uniondecrease-in-petrol-prices-not-enough\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PUBLIC TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION:Decrease in petrol prices not enough\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sticks Nkambule, the Secretary General of the Swaziland Transport, Communication and Allied Workers(SWATCAWU) says th ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/public-transport-workers-uniondecrease-in-petrol-prices-not-enough\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Eswatini\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-12-22T09:25:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-22T10:50:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671693404.33.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1284\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"880\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/public-transport-workers-uniondecrease-in-petrol-prices-not-enough#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/public-transport-workers-uniondecrease-in-petrol-prices-not-enough\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"PUBLIC TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION:Decrease in petrol prices not enough\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-22T09:25:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-22T10:50:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/public-transport-workers-uniondecrease-in-petrol-prices-not-enough\"},\"wordCount\":111,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/public-transport-workers-uniondecrease-in-petrol-prices-not-enough#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671693404.33.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Eswatini\",\"Eswatini\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\",\"head lines\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/public-transport-workers-uniondecrease-in-petrol-prices-not-enough#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/public-transport-workers-uniondecrease-in-petrol-prices-not-enough\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/public-transport-workers-uniondecrease-in-petrol-prices-not-enough\",\"name\":\"PUBLIC TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION:Decrease in petrol prices not enough - 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