BY MBONO MDLULI
MBABANE – In an effort to spread more knowledge on safe gas cylinders, Eswatini National Petroleum Company (ENPC) will start hosting roadshows from this coming Saturday.
The Saturday roadshow will be hosted in Manzini Bus Rank, where people from the city and surrounding areas will be given an opportunity to pose questions they many have on the gas cylinders, which are popularly known as Phephile Gas.
Speaking on Eswatini TV’s Kusile Breakfast Show today (Thursday, October 24, 2024), ENPC Sales and Product Specialist Sizwe Themba said this would be a great opportunity for members of the public to know more about Phephile Gas. Themba stated that ENPC would be ready to answer all questions related to this product.
Themba said other roadshows would be hosted in other parts of the country on dates that would be communicated. He said their intention was to make the product accessible to every household in the country, as they believed it was the one that was supposed to be used because of its safety.
ENPC Marketing and Communications Manager Gugu Bennett said the name ‘Phephile Gas’ was given to the product because of its safety. Bennett said it was safe because of the plastic material the cylinder was made of. It could not explode, as opposed to some liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders that were made of still, which exploded when something went wrong.
She also mentioned that the safety aspect was the one that they talked about the most to their customers because they had realised that most people were afraid of LPG product because of their explosive nature. According to Bennett, the products were bought mostly by men, as opposed to women.
This was quite interesting, according to the marketing specialist. However, she said they quickly realised that even though the product was used mostly by women when cooking, men bought it because they wanted to ensure the safety of their families. Bennett said the public accepted their product very well. She said the cylinders, which came in different sizes, were in demand.
According to Bennett, there was a demand for the 19 kg and the 48 kg cylinders. She said they were working and ensuring the availability of those cylinders. Bennett said currently, they had the 5 kg, 10 kg and the 14 kg cylinders.
