Legal dispute stalls work on major highway

The expansion of the Harare-Beitbridge Highway has once again been stalled following a legal dispute involving a contractor.

Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Obert Mpofu said legal battles with a local contractor caused the delay of the commencement of work.

Mpofu said this during the question and answer session in the Upper House.

Mohadi said the road had become a death trap for travellers and the road carnage was caused by the road's poor state.  

Mpofu said several regional countries were equally eager to have the road constructed given its importance.