Pretoria residents will feel a bit of financial breathing room this week as the Department of Petroleum and Mineral Resources confirms new fuel price adjustments from Wednesday, a shift that could ease the cost of daily commutes, school runs and small-business deliveries.

The changes follow a month of global oil market jitters, with geopolitical tensions pushing prices higher, while a stronger rand helped soften the blow locally.

Here are the changes:

• Petrol 93: decrease of 65 cents per litre
• Petrol 95: decrease of 65 cents per litre
• Diesel 0.05% (wholesale): decrease of 50 cents per litre
• Diesel 0.005% (wholesale): decrease of 57 cents per litre
• Illuminating Paraffin (Wholesale): decrease of 53 cents per litre
• LP Gas (Gauteng): increase of 31 cents per kg

These adjustments come after Brent crude averaged higher over the review period, rising from $61.47 to $64.08, driven by geopolitical uncertainty linked to events involving Iran, Greenland, Kazakhstan and Venezuela, as well as extreme cold weather that disrupted US production.