How many ways from here to there

People familiar with Africa, or who have seen any kind of documentary about urban Sub-Saharan Africa would recognize a single ubiquitous element in the backdrop - the white mini-bus taxi. They were old Ford Transit vans during my 70s-80s childhood in Nigeria. Now they are solidly represented by the Japanese motor industry. As expected these mini-buses are the backbone for transportation across the Jo'burg metro area. They evolved due to apartheid era policies for creating race based townships outside the city without providing and public transit connecting the workers to their workplaces. Public buses were out of bounds for colored folks. So they improvised and organically developed the mini-bus transportation network that now serves a majority of the population's transportation needs. Minibus Taxi atmosphere Post-Apartheid, these mini-vans were organised into associations that were given specific routes form them to ply on. This was primarily done to avoid the