Open Truck Transport Condemned

FRANCISTOWN: It is time for school competitions in various parts of the country and school children are being transported in open trucks to the venues.

Parents in Borolong, who watched as two open trucks laden with pupils singing loudly as they trundled past them, could only shake their heads in dismay unable to understand why to this day nothing has been done to address the problem.

"It is not only the fact of accidents that may be fatal because the trucks are open.

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