One of the men, Kedibonye Moabi is famous for his crying antics when he does not have his way with people, especially when they do not buy his peanuts that he has also become famous for selling. While other people treat the bus rank as a stepping-stone to ultimately having established businesses these two men vow that hawking at the bus rank is a profession and they would not rather do something else. Moabi, who is well known to Francistowners as Kedi says that he has been selling at the bus rank for the past three years after he retired from his job as a labourer at Botswana Meat Commission (BMC).
He has since become famous for weeping when his sales do not go as predicted. When approached by this paper for an interview, Kedi would not budge until the reporters bought his peanuts. It immediately becomes clear why Kedi is dubbed the 'weeping old guy of the bus rank' as he whines that people are not buying his peanuts. "They buy only when they choose to," he says while holding his cheek to portray his sadness. Kedi says that before he came to the rank he used to be a cattle farmer back home in Mandunyane, but was robbed of them by the recurring Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) epidemic.
