Contrary to what directors of a certain premier car dealership tell themselves, Botswana is not Toyota country but queue and litigation country. Those elements (queue and litigation) now find themselves in a pathological tangle that stretches all the way from Francistown to Gaborone to Lobatse.
In order to solve a queue issue (traffic jams) at the Sir Seretse Khama and P. G. Matante International Airports, the Civil Aviation Authority Botswana (CAAB) contracted a Gaborone-based company called Rolling Sure to provide car park management services for five years. The contract also provided for car wash services at both airports. CAAB wanted Rolling Sure to pay it a minimum monthly guarantee of P30 595.42 for the rental of SSKIA’s 654 parking bays and similar payment of P7 648.86 for Francistown’s 244 bays. Additionally, the company was to pay a concession fee of 8 percent of the monthly turnover and rental levy of P15 per bay for each airport.
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