Combis in Cape Town
While standing in queues at either Fourth Street or by Copacabana I’ve often wondered what combi ranks are like in other countries. I was in Cape Town a few days ago, and had occasion to use the combis there. I was surprised to find that the combi rank was not in some out of the way place, out of view of tourists and visitors to the city, but rather on the roof of a train station, right next to a busy main road. I was even more surprised to find that rather than the pushing and shoving that makes the Zimbabwean combi experience unpleasant, people stood in short orderly queues waiting for their combi to come. No pushing or shoving or shouting or being pulled by whindis. We still have a lot to learn.