Paraffin users lament high prices - Reaction from KuGompo

The latest increase in the price of paraffin by R4.22 for the month of May comes as another hard blow after this commodity's price jumped by more than R11 per litre last month (April).

Paraffin is widely used in poor communities as a heat source for cooking, lighting and heating.

Consumers now have to fork out more than R28 per litre in some areas.

SABC News reporter in KuGompo city, Abongile Jantjies, has more on this

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