Where peasants are kings

Friday, December 13, 2013

Bus and taxi ranks remain the only places where the poor are able to make a living. In their hundreds feeding thousands, traders at Botswana's bus ranks are innovative, have a streak of discipline and a consuming desire to earn their keep.

A majority of those that trade at the bus rank are those that were discarded to a life of abject poverty, but refuse to be poor.

Their meetings are informal, but their pricing is the same. No matter what they do, they hold on to their guns.

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