Commuters board a minibus taxi at Bara Taxi rank in Soweto on April 1, 2026, a day after South Africa lowered its fuel tax for a month to offset a global oil price surge driven by the Iran war, even as pump prices rose in one of the steepest increases on record. (Photo by Phill Magakoe / AFP via Getty Images)

A street vendor sells homemade cookies to commuters queueing to board a minibus taxi at Bara Taxi rank in Soweto on April 1, 2026, a day after South Africa lowered its fuel tax for a month to offset a global oil price surge driven by the Iran war, even as pump prices rose in one of the steepest increases on record. (Photo by Phill Magakoe / AFP via Getty Images)

Commuters queue to board a minibus taxi at Bara Taxi rank in Soweto on April 1, 2026, a day after South Africa lowered its fuel tax for a month to offset a global oil price surge driven by the Iran war, even as pump prices rose in one of the steepest increases on record. (Photo by Phill Magakoe / AFP via Getty Images)

Commuters queue to board a minibus taxi at Bara Taxi rank in Soweto on April 1, 2026, a day after South Africa lowered its fuel tax for a month to offset a global oil price surge driven by the Iran war, even as pump prices rose in one of the steepest increases on record. (Photo by Phill Magakoe / AFP via Getty Images)

Commuters queue to board a minibus taxi at Bara Taxi rank in Soweto on April 1, 2026, a day after South Africa lowered its fuel tax for a month to offset a global oil price surge driven by the Iran war, even as pump prices rose in one of the steepest increases on record. (Photo by Phill Magakoe / AFP via Getty Images)

A woman walks past an electronic quotation board displaying the closing numbers of the Nikkei Stock Average on the Tokyo Stock Exchange along a street in Tokyo on April 1, 2026. (Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP via Getty Images)

A man walks past an electronic quotation board displaying the closing numbers of the Nikkei Stock Average on the Tokyo Stock Exchange along a street in Tokyo on April 1, 2026. (Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP via Getty Images)

French Ambassador to Japan Beatrice Le Fraper du Hellen smiles for a group photo with President Emmanuel Macron (not pictured) and Japanese and French business leaders at the Tokyo Innovation Base (TIB) in Tokyo on April 1, 2026. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)