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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 | 11 | 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 | 7 | by Staff reporter
Joram Gumbo's tenure littered with allegations of corruption
FORMER Energy and Power Development minister Joram Gumbo was this week unceremoniously demoted to a junior ministerial post due to a string of corruption allegations, gross incompetence and fuel short...Published: 17 May 2019 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dualisation open to Zimbabwe contractors
Government has divided the dualisation of Harare-Beitbridge highway into nine sections to be constructed by local companies and last week opened a third 10km detour in Masvingo as construction work ga...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge-Chirundu highway's new design to cost US$520 000
THE Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu highway dualisation project has been pushed back by a further three months over new designs. This comes as government scouts for a new road designer after Austrian firm...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 19:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa claims that fuel and wheat shortages already fixed
Government has made significant headway in dealing head-on with various challenges affecting the economy, and has since addressed fuel and wheat challenges, while satisfactory progress has been made i...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:41hrs | | 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 | 1 | 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 | 8 | 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 | 1 | 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 | | 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 | | 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
$400m for roads rehabilitation
GOVERNMENT is working towards raising US$300 million from bonds issued by the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) for road repairs across the country.Separately, US$100 million has...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 16:48hrs | | 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 | 1 | 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 | | 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 | 1 | 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 | 31 | 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 | | 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 | 1 | 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 | 1 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 1 | 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 | 2 | by Staff reprteer
Wicknell Chivayo back at solar project site
PARLIAMENT heard yesterday that controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo was back on the site earmarked for the Gwanda solar project at a time legislators were still investigating circumstances lead...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 07:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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 | | 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 | | 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
WATCH: George Charamba speaks about the new Zimbabwe dispensation
Zimbabwe's Information, Media and Broadcasting Services permanent secretary in a no-holds-barred about President Emmerson Mnangagwa's visit to China, the Geiger contract, election observers and more....Published: 09 Apr 2018 at 20:42hrs | 2 | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Geiger Austrian firm loses Harare-Beitbridge highway dualisation tender
Cabinet has resolved to withdraw the tender awarded to Austrian firm, Geiger, for the dualisation of the Harare-Beitbridge-Chirundu highway, President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced yesterday.Br...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 07:20hrs | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
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