LISTEN: Retailers will have to pay refunds following petrol price mistake
The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy admitted on Wednesday that it had mistakenly added six cents to the petrol price.
The price went up by 81 cents a litre at midnight on Wednesday.
But around lunchtime, the department admitted it should only have gone up by 75 cents.
Spokesperson for the department Robert Maake says they will not be able to pay out any refunds as it’s up to the petrol station where the fuel was purchased.
“The department won’t have any refunds. All I can say to you is that if I go to a shop and they overcharge me, I return to that shop and they refund me the money they overcharged.
“Unfortunately, the department doesn’t even have any mechanisms to refund people, this is the first time that this happens.”
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