Well, i can say that in South Africa unleaded is no problem, infact, at most pumps in cities you have a choice between 2 "octanes". The same is true for Namibia and Botswana. I wont trust the pumps in Zimbabwe these days, but Zambia is OK, except the rural areas maybe. Malawi has unleaded, as well as Mozambique. Angola, well, up north i guess you shouldn't trust the pumps.

I would imagine it to be standard procedure to "fill up" through a "semi". I don't know what you call it, but down here we use a piece of sheepskin to dry our cars after a wash. We also use this procedure when we fill up aircraft, especially when landing in remote areas and filling up out of opened drums. You never know....had a friend that filled up his plane out of a AVGAS drum. Someone stole the AVGAS and relaced it with JET A-1(Paraffin). He got up to about 400ft, the engine quit, and he made a forced landing into a half-full river infested with crocs.... Everybody OK though.

We also allways take a sample of the fuel and look at the colour(flying). The same should be true, i guess, for "Mogas" Down here unleaded is greenish and leaded is readish.... but i have seen exceptions.

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