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Mucheke main bridge now 58% complete
The much-anticipated construction of the Mucheke main bridge in Masvingo is advancing steadily, with authorities confirming that the project is now 58 percent complete and expected to be finished by t...Published: 05 Jul 2025 at 15:00hrs | 184 | by Staff reporter
Harare - Beitbridge highway nears completion
THE rehabilitation of the Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge highway is near completion with 435km now open to traffic, as the start of work on the upgrade of the 342km Harare-Chirundu Highway has also reache...Published: 31 May 2023 at 06:58hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
'Highway upgrade spurs growth'
Remarkable progress has been made in the upgrading of the Harare-Beitbridge highway by local companies with the entire 274km stretch under Masvingo province expected to be completed by the end of next...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Revisiting the Beitbridge-Harare highway
The state of the Beitbridge-Harare (A4) Highway is now a cause for concern as the number of human fatalities grows by each day due to deadly accidents in the narrow strip that links Zimbabwe and South...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 08:06hrs | | by Victor Bhoroma
Major Matabeleland roads under reconstruction
THE multi-million dollar road infrastructure development programme undertaken by the Government has moved a gear up with work on the Bulawayo-Nkayi Road and Bulawayo-Tsholotsho Road now underway, amon...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:13hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zinara seeks $250m for project
THE Zimbabwe National Road Authority (Zinara) will float US$250 million worth of infrastructure bonds to mobilise funds for upgrading the Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge highway. This comes after governmen...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to recover looted Zinara funds
Government will recover all the money looted from the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara), President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said. An audit report by Grant Thornton unearthed massive...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 05:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dumps Chinese contractor
GOVERNMENT has abandoned talks with Chinese contractor Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Group Limited (AFECC) for the dualisation of the Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu Highway, opting for local financi...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 10:35hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
More than $5 billion required for Zimbabwe roads rehabilitation
THE Government requires more than $5 billion to rehabilitate the country's entire road network with more than $250 million having been availed to the department of roads as work on re-establishing tra...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 08:14hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe goes it alone on Chirundu-Harare-Beitbridge Highway dualisation
GOVERNMENT has decided to go it alone and dualise the Chirundu-Harare-Beitbridge Highway while talks with Chinese Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Group Limited (Afecc) for the $2 billion tender co...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Muchinguri taken to task over Masvingo highway
OPPOSITION Alliance MPs on Wednesday took Defence minister Oppah Muchinguri to task over delays on the Beitbridge-Chirundu dualisation project, saying government was fond of holding groundbreaking cer...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 07:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to engage local firms for Beitbridge-Chirundu highway
Government is moving to engage Zimbabwean road construction firms in a major road expansion programme connecting Beitbridge and Chirundu amid indications the deal reached with Chinese firm Anhui Forei...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 12:54hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe road upgrades gather pace
THE modernisation of major roads, particularly the much-talked about Harare-Beitbridge highway, is gathering pace after Government officials met Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Corporation (AFECC)...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 07:21hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge - Harare road dualization in limbo
GOVERNMENT could abandon the controversial US$2,7 billion deal with Chinese firm Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Group Limited (Afecc) for the dualisation of the Chirundu-Beitbridge highway after ...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dualisation contractor tables funding options
THE new contractor for the dualisation of the Harare-Beitbridge and Harare-Chirundu highways, Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Group Limited (AFECC) from China, has submitted three funding options ...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Airways chaos continues
THE policy flip-flop around Air Zimbabwe (AirZim)'s proposed merger with its equally controversial peer Zimbabwe Airways (ZimAirways) has once again exposed the ineptitude of those superintending this...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 14:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Top Chinese firm targets key rail project
Thousands of jobs are in the offing for skilled and unskilled Zimbabweans from a mega infrastructure project that will see the construction of a 400km railway link between Shamva and Moatize in Mozamb...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 09:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim engages Chinese firm over Beitbridge-Chirundu highway
Government is engaging a new contractor from China, Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Group Limited (AFECC), for the dualisation of the Harare-Beitbridge and Harare-Chirundu highways after it withdr...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 07:29hrs | 5 | by Staff rpeorter
Chinese eye $3bn Zimbabwe highway tender
CHINESE firm Anhui Foreign Economic Construction (Group) Co Limited (AFECC) could clinch the $3 billion contract to resurface the long-awaited Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu Highway, NewsDay reported....Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 16:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt engages Chirundu highway contractor
GOVERNMENT is engaging a Chinese Company, Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Group Limited (AFECC), for the dualisation of the Harare-Beitbridge-Chirundu Highway after it withdrew a tender that had b...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 06:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga tightens grip on Zimbabwe government
VICE President Constatino Chiwenga has been given new responsibilities to administer Zimbabwe's public procurement processes, anti-corruption drive and key components of the Home Affairs ministry, ign...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 10:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's scarf woowing investors?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa told his supported in Masvingo on Friday that the scarf he wore on his first trip to Davos soon after the coup and to everywhere else he has been to outside Zimbabwe is at...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 11:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
WikiLeaks: 25 most corrupt ministers and public figures in Zimbabwe
These individuals will never be prosecuted by the Mnangagwa government because he is involved with entirely all of them. Either they were in the deal together or they know too much of his own dirty de...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 11:06hrs | 103 | by WikiLeaks
Zimbabwe cancels Gieger's highway tender
Government has officially cancelled Geiger International's tender for dualisation of the Chirundu-Harare-Beitbridge Highway after the lapse of a 60-day ultimatum for the company to begin works, and Ca...Published: 27 May 2018 at 10:07hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
D-Day for Geiger over BB/Harare/Chirundu highway
An Austrian company that won the tender for the dualisation of the Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu Highway, Geiger International, has up to tomorrow to deliver proof of funds for the project, failure of wh...Published: 17 May 2018 at 07:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga tell contractors to 'deliver or quit'
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga yesterday warned that the government would not hesitate to withdraw contracts from firms that take long to implement national projects after winning tenders....Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 09:03hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga explains new dispensation's attitude to investors
ZIMBABWE is open to doing business with every genuine investor but will not tolerate chancers, and corrective measures are being taken to ensure that signed capital projects are implemented within spe...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 08:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Highway tender cancellation could cost govt millions
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration could be in a spot of bother over cancellation of the tender for $1 billion Beitbridge-Chirundu highway dualisation project, which legal experts indicatin...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 08:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
New contractor gets Chirundu-Beitbridge highway tender
GOVERNMENT has awarded the $2 billion Chirundu-Harare-Beitbridge Highway dualisation project to a new contractor, replacing Austrian contractor Geiger International, which was booted out recently for ...Published: 25 Apr 2018 at 07:15hrs | 3 | by Staff reprteer
Mnangagwa gamble backfires
The Austrian company contracted to dualise the Beitbridge-Chirundu highway has ignored President Emmerson Mnangagwa's move to cancel the contract and says it is already working on the project amid ind...Published: 15 Apr 2018 at 11:08hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Harare-Beitbridge dualisation deal opens can of worms
The cancellation of the Geiger International road dualisation deal has exposed that incompetence and corruption abounded in Government corridors amid revelations that the Austrian company is just a "b...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 07:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga instigated cancelation of Beitbridge-Harare highway tender
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's decision to cancel Geiger International contract to dualise the Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu highway was instigated by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's “serious pro...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 07:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
4 killed in Masvingo accident
FOUR people died, three on the spot, while one was seriously injured when a Toyota Funcargo they were travelling in veered off the road and rolled once before landing on its left side along the Masvin...Published: 11 Apr 2018 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sets record straight on cancelled highway tender
Cabinet took a decision to terminate the contract for the dualisation of the Beitbridge-Harare Highway on March 13, 2018 and instructed the Attorney-General, Advocate Prince Machaya, to furnish the Pr...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joram Gumbo under fire
Transport minister Joram Gumbo has come under fire from various stakeholders in the economy for failing to transform parastatals under his portfolio and develop critical infrastructure in the country....Published: 09 Apr 2018 at 16:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Confusion over Zimbabwe's $1 billion highway upgrade tender
Confusion has rocked the long-delayed Harare-Beitbridge-Chirundu highway dualisation project, with Transport and Infrastructure Development minister, Joram Gumbo, insisting government has not cancelle...Published: 07 Apr 2018 at 18:21hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Harare-Beitbridge road dualisation commences
Preliminary work for the much-anticipated dualisation of the Harare-Beitbridge road has started with Geiger International the Austrian company that won the tender now on ground.The route align...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 17:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge-Chirundu Road on track
Government is cognisant of the urgent need to dualise the Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu Road, and is pushing for commencement of works, a Cabinet minister has said.Following enquiries from MPs la...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 08:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Harare-Beitbridge Highway dualisation to start this month
The much-awaited dualisation of Beitbridge-Harare Highway that is expected to cost close to a $1 billion is set to start before the end of this month, with the contractor expected to set up three camp...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 06:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge-Harare highway dualisation takes shape
Officials from Geiger International, the company contracted for the dualisation of the Beitbridge - Masvingo - Harare highway are now on the ground identifying sites to set up bases, with machinery fo...Published: 08 Mar 2018 at 16:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to ban cargo road ban after rail revival
GOVERNMENT will consider banning heavy cargo trucks from the country's roads when the railway infrastructure has been revived, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.Speaking while officially l...Published: 01 Mar 2018 at 08:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa presses Joram Gumbo over Chirundu-Beitbridge road dualisation
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday called on Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister, Dr Joram Gumbo, to expedite the dualisation of the Beitbridge-Chirundu Highway and improve the stat...Published: 22 Feb 2018 at 05:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Local firms assured of 40% Harare-Beitbridge highway dualisation stake
MASVINGO Provincial Affairs minister Josaya Hungwe has assured indigenous civil engineering firms that they will get their 40% share of road construction jobs in the dualisation of the Harare-Masvingo...Published: 08 Feb 2018 at 06:50hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Work starts on Harare-Beitbridge dualization
The long-awaited dualisation of the Harare-Beitbridge highway is expected to start in earnest next month as everything appears set for the mega project to take-off.This comes despite claims th...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 08:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt gets serious on road system upgrade
Government will carry out feasibility studies for three major national highways as part of preparations for its infrastructure development planning.The roads set for construction and whose fea...Published: 01 Feb 2018 at 05:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Beitbridge-Chirundu Road project starts March'
Construction of Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge Road commences in March, with the contractor - Geiger International - having divided the road into six operating areas.Transport and Infrastructure D...Published: 11 Jan 2018 at 06:04hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge-Harare highway road designs complete
Transport and Infrastructure Development Minister Dr Joram Gumbo says Geiger International, the company contracted to dualise the Beitbridge-Harare highway has completed undertaking designs of the roa...Published: 10 Jan 2018 at 15:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare-Beitbridge-Chirundu highway project takes off
Construction of the US$1 billion Harare-Beitbridge-Chirundu Highway is expected to start within two months, Transport and Infrastructure Development Minister Dr Joram Gumbo has said.Dr Gumbo s...Published: 06 Jan 2018 at 22:48hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Dualisation project equipment arrives
THE contractor for the long-awaited Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu highway dualisation project has started bringing in the machinery into the country paving way for the commencement of the $1.7 billion pr...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 04:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
All set for Harare-B/Bridge dualisation
Austrian construction giant, Geiger International, the contractor engaged by Government for the Harare-Beitbridge Highway, has completed surveying the road, paving way for the commencement of the mult...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 05:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
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