Reports in the SA press that filling stations in Gauteng and KwaZulu Natal were likely to be running dry of petrol and diesel due to a fuel shortage appear to be more journalistic exaggeration than reality.
According to FTW sources, while the two provinces are not exactly flooded with fuel supplies, nobody in the road transport industry has any complaints about diesel supplies drying up.
The Fuel Retailers’ Association (FRA) CEO Reggie Sibiya said early last week that BP service stations were the worst affected and both the Alrode and Langlaagte depots had, on more than one occasion, run out of these products.
But, by the weekend, still no reports had appeared of empty fuel pumps. This was despite Sibiya being insistent that he had reports of over 100 service stations running dry of one or more products.
To read the full FTW story, click here.
FTW pick: Fuel shortages ‘highly exaggerated’
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