Dar es Saalam, March 20 -- The other day I read somewhere that bus crews of the Dar es Salaam Rapid Transit ( DaRT), commuter system do not give Tsh500 in change to their fare-paying passengers most of the time!

According to a letter by one 'J anet Mvungi' published in the Readers' Forum of a Dar es Salaambased ki-Swahili Daily, DaRT bus conductors have not being giving the correct/full change to commuters as a matter of course.

[ See ' Chenji irudishwe mabasi ya Udart;' page 11; ' Mwananchi,' J anuary 24, 2019]. Some DaRT fares have Tsh500 as a factor per trip.. . For ex ample: Tsh65 0 between the city centre and Ubungo along Morogoro Road.. . So, a passenger who forks out (say) a Tsh1,000 note in payment of the fare ex pects Tsh350 back...