Taxi drivers at the city's bus rank are leading the prayer with Big Stan, who plies the Donga route as the chief priest. Amos Aboleleng, who ferries passengers on the Selepa-Extension-New Stands route is his right hand man. Big Stan, who shrugged off Monitor's attempts to get his full name says he is repairing his car every day because of damage from the bad roads.
"Just look at my car. Even though it is still in the morning, it is already dirty because of these muddy roads. If it is not the potholes on the roads and streets, it is the fact that they (the roads and streets) are so narrow for you to avoid on-coming vehicles or an errant pedestrian. You have to plough into the dirt. I think what the (Francistown) City Council does is to fill up the potholes with soil, which makes matters even worse because with the volume of traffic nowadays, after only a few days, the potholes are back again," he said.
