Zim Parliament demands reversal of Plumtree-Mutare road tollgate deal

The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport has demanded that the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) reverses a deal it entered with a South African company to collect revenue at nine tollgates along the Plumtree-Mutare Highway.

The Dextor Nduna-chaired committee yesterday told senior Zinara executives that the deal needed to be relooked at in order for the arrangement to benefit the country.

Mugabe, Zinara acting chief executive officer Moses Juma, the parastatal's technical partner in the implementation of the Zimbabwe Integrated Transport Information Management System (Zimtis), Univern officials attended the hearing.

The committee was, however, snubbed by the other partner South Africa's Inter-toll, a subsidiary of Group Five, the company that constructed the Plumtree-Mutare Highway, which left Nduna seething.