Government gets fare ultimatum

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The government has been told to raise bus fares within 14 days or there will be no buses, the Chairman of the Botswana Bus Operators Association, Tirafalo Mponang, has confirmed.

Infact, the bus operators wanted to "park" their buses yesterday, but government officials had to run helter-skelter convincing the operators that something would be done. 

"Officials of the Department of Road Transport and Safety held a meeting with us on Monday night and said something would be done in the near future," Mponang said. "They will be working on calculations with input from our representatives."

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