{"id":222631,"date":"2026-02-03T00:04:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/namibia-namcor-accused-of-supplying-substandard-fuel-to-botswana-and-namibia-as-engine-damage-fears-rise\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T00:04:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:04:32","slug":"namibia-namcor-accused-of-supplying-substandard-fuel-to-botswana-and-namibia-as-engine-damage-fears-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/namibia-namcor-accused-of-supplying-substandard-fuel-to-botswana-and-namibia-as-engine-damage-fears-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Namcor Accused of Supplying Substandard Fuel to Botswana and Namibia As Engine Damage Fears Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The oil was allegedly imported by Puma, which Namcor recently contracted to supply the national oil storage facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Some of Namcor&#8217;s oil was sold on to Botswana Oil (Namcor&#8217;s equivalent), which raised the alarm that the oil quality was substandard, according to correspondence seen by The Namibian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Botswana Oil became aware of the problem following routine quality tests of seven trucks carrying ULP95 that were loaded at the Namcor terminal at Walvis Bay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602020890.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oil was allegedly imported by Puma, which Namcor recently contracted to supply the national oil storage facility. Some of Namcor&#8217;s oil was sold on to Botswana Oil (Namcor&#8217;s equivalent), which raised the alarm that the oil quality was substandard, according to correspondence seen by The Namibian. Botswana Oil became aware of the problem following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":222632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[7083,258,256,4718,2462,14206,20552,5140,7570,9743,4706,257,10256,254,34966,33933],"class_list":["post-222631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-accused","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-damage","tag-engine","tag-fears","tag-fuel","tag-namcor","tag-namibia","tag-news","tag-rise","tag-south-africa-today","tag-substandard","tag-supplying"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}