Where peasants are kings

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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.

Editor's Comment
The people have spoken

In fact, early election results in some areas across the country, speak to large voter turnout which suggests that voters crowded at polling stations to decide appropriately. The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) revealed that 80% of the 1,037,684 people who had registered to vote turned up to exercise their right.It’s unfortunate that at the time of cobbling this editorial comment, results had just started trickling in. We recognise that...

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