Personal space is not a concept here, so you could have a child, or even a chicken placed on your lap if the driver or conductor sees that your lap is available. Children that live within a mile of their school are expected to walk. If they live farther than that, their family will usually pay for them to take a sprinter van to school and back. If the family cannot afford the fare, the child will have to walk. There are no school buses, sadly.
The worst part of taking public transit is the required wait time. There is no schedule for taxis. You simply go to the city taxi rank and wait for your taxi to fill. Sometimes you arrive and the taxi is almost full and you'll be able to leave within ten minutes. At other times, you aren't as lucky and you wait for hours. If you are trying to leave your village, it can be a bit easier. You just wait on the side of the road and hope that a private car will pick you up, or you wait for a taxi to come through that has an available seat. On another note, Something that I really don't like about transportation is that seatbelts don't exist here. They are taken out of all of the taxis and 4+1s. The only time you will see a seat belt is in a private vehicle. Car seats are also not available in Lesotho, so babies and toddlers are always held on the lap or in the arms of their mother. Road conditions are also not good. Lesotho is a very montainous country, and many of the roads in the highlands are built into the sides of mountains. Drivers love to drive fast because they want to make as many rounds as they can in a day to earn extra money, and it is common for drivers to drink beer while driving, so there are many accidents.
