{"id":19224,"date":"2026-10-28T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T11:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=19224"},"modified":"2026-10-28T11:44:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T11:44:00","slug":"petrol-politics-and-the-polls-unpacking-godongwanas-fuel-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=19224","title":{"rendered":"Petrol, politics and the polls: Unpacking Godongwana\u2019s fuel relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>You can also listen to this podcast on iono.fm here.<\/p>\n<p>HBGSchindlers Attorneys\u2019s Chantelle Gladwin-Wood unpacks the growing controversy over municipalities charging homeowners for water drawn from their own boreholes and whether these fees are legally justified. Consumer rights expert Trudie Broekmann explains why South Africans are fed up with paying taxes for public services that increasingly fail to deliver, and what accountability they should demand. Political analyst Dr Ongama Mtimka examines the politics behind Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana\u2019s fuel relief measures and their significance ahead of the polls. And Shoprite Group chief sustainability officer Sanjeev Raghubir discusses the alarming findings of the 2026 SA Food Security Index, which shows household hunger reaching its highest level since 2010, and what this means for millions of struggling South Africans.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>Guests on today\u2019s show:<\/p>\n<p>Chantelle Gladwin-Wood: Head of public law, HBGSchindlers Attorneys<br \/>Trudie Broekmann: Consumer rights expert<br \/>Dr Ongama Mtimka: Political analyst and acting director of the Raymond Mhlaba Centre for Governance and Leadership, Nelson Mandela University<br \/>Sanjeev Raghubir: Chief sustainability officer, Shoprite Group<\/p>\n<p>                        #Petrol #politics #polls #Unpacking #Godongwanas #fuel #relief<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can also listen to this podcast on iono.fm here. HBGSchindlers Attorneys\u2019s Chantelle Gladwin-Wood unpacks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[1255,11429,2737,5539,14558,5045,11454],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}