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  • A further extension on 4 October 2010 will bring in a £100 a day charge for large vans & horseboxes between 1.205 unladen & 3.5 tonnes as well as Motor caravans between 2.5 & 3.5 tonnes and Minibuses below 5 tonnes.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • Minibuses are large vans or small buses mini, if you will and tend to service short routes in between large cities or really windy roads way out in the stix.

    Archive 2008-03-02 2008

  • Minibuses "must just go away" although over 70 percent of the people living in Johannesburg relied on this mode of transport, said Bob Stanway, who was representing a mayoral committee on the matter.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

  • Minibuses are often assumed, somewhat inaccurately as it happens, to be the main culprits.

    Meeting the challenge of road safety in South Africa: Address by Jeremy Cronin chair of Transport Portfolio Committee 2003

  • The breakdown reads as follows: Minibuses 45; Passenger cars 65; Bakkies 16; Buses 11;

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • However, they do use their own vehicles, including top of the range four-by-fours, to get the comrades from A to B. Minibuses have also been used to ferret Federal Alliance leader

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • Minibuses were plying a busy trade between the city centre and the townships, but regular buses services appeared to be running only limited schedules.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • Minibuses turned up at their house and people threw stones at their house.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Minibuses are less sturdy than field vehicles with a similar capacity.

    6.1 The Need for Motor Vehicles 1989

  • Minibuses routinely pack two or three people beside the driver, six over three seats and more crouched in the entrance, aisle and luggage area.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

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