Botswana hire loco query

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Mel Turner
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Botswana hire loco query

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Currently Botswana appears to be awash with hire locos, appear to be based at Mahalapye. Botswana Railways (or politicians) seem to be having difficulty finilising the contract with Progress Rail for eight GT42AC locomotives, for which they have paid a US$17 million deposit/downpayment
http://www.weekendpost.co.bw/wp-news-de ... p?nid=2280

AR&TS ex TFR 34 Class 2701, 2702, ex Australian GE? (number not known)
Grindrod RM30-06, RM30-12, may be more
Transnet Engineering ex Australian 2250 Class GT22LC-2 TE01, TE02

Does anyone have any more information on the number of hire units in use?
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