/ 11 May 1999

SHELL JUMPS THE GUN

SHELL South Africa has pledged R3800 to the Nelson Mandela Children’s fund after its Ultra City in Umtata inadvertently upped the price of petrol a day early. A technical error resulted in Wednesday’s 18 cents a litre price rise coming into effect at midnight on Monday. The mistake was rectified only eight hours later when an alert customer queried the petrol price.During this time 4993,54 litres of petrol had been sold – giving Shell an extra R898 in its coffers.