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The taximan said it was not a question of compensation.

Learning the trade of the taximan the hard way, forced to confront street thugs and worse, Spike survives hardship after hardship.

Gone was the sand coloured desert, instead vivid kaleidoscopic fish clustered around us, and coral beckoned from what the taximan had told us was 'the bridge,' as we swam around the edges of an unimaginable blue stretching into depths that had never been determined.

It was a bit of a job: they loaded Madeleine's bags into the trunk, then they folded up the wheelchair and stuck it in front with the taximan, then they got Carlisle into the back, then off they went, by the winding roads and lanes grown over with green hedges in which grew red hibiscus and some blue flower nobody knew, and then out along the seaside highway.

Then there's James the taximan. James hasn't had a haircut since John Lennon was shot.

They were half way over when a car was suddenly upon them from their right, driven too fast by an off-duty taximan who had had too much to drink.

Whether discussing the San peoples' dilemma with a Botswana government official over a meat pie and Coke in the Okavango Delta, getting to know a young Muslim returning from Mecca to his home in Accra, a dhow-maker on the island of Lamu, a school teacher from Niger, a crocodile wrestler in Zimbabwe, a one-legged bicycle taximan in Sofala or a gris-gris doctor in Kinshasa - the encounters with fellow Africans and others are skilfully and intimately recounted.

In March, after eight months of R&D, their TaxiMan software completed testing at three companies - all of which then purchased the product.

He then gets out of the car and walks over to the driver's side, at which point the taximan locks the cab and drives off without being paid.

"Give it a try," I told the taximan. "Not while I'm driving," he said.

A CHINESE taximan gave his bride a wedding procession with a difference after 30 colleagues turned out in their cabs for them.

The well-known Limerick taximan was last seen alive at approximately 3am on Friday July 7, 1989 near Setrights Cross, Co.

As a taximan for five years, William Blain didn't hesitate to install a Gold package CCTV camera system from Taxifix.

. "The Taximan's Story." Yeo, Singapore Short Stories Vol.