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Stylish matatus take over city roads


Three cents. In today’s economy, that is not even small change. But that is the fare that new entrants in mass transportation charged commuters several deades ago. The amount of fare charged then gave rise to the name the ubiquitous motor vehicles are now synonymous with: matatu.

Mohammed Ali aka Moha of Moha Grafix during the interview at his garage in Eastleigh's Sun City area. (PHOTO: PKEMOI NG'ENOH/ STANDARD)

That was in the early Sixties.

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