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Norton roads reopened after 3-year rehabilitation

Two major link roads in Katanga, Norton - Shonhiwa Drive and Koshen Drive - have officially reopened to traffic following over three years of rehabilitation under the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme (ERRP 2), launched by President …

Published: 03 Sep 2025 at 08:48hrs | 115 | by Staff reporter

Harare paid millions on roads that don't exist

Harare faces fresh scrutiny after reports revealed that millions of US dollars were paid for the rehabilitation of 43 roads that were never constructed. A 2019 internal audit confirmed that, despite full payments, no work had been carried …

Published: 19 Aug 2025 at 12:08hrs | 1010 | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo's deteriorating roads and malfunctioning traffic lights

Bulawayo city councillors have expressed deep concern over the worsening state of roads and malfunctioning traffic lights, warning that the deteriorating infrastructure poses serious risks to motorists, pedestrians, and schoolchildren.The …

Published: 06 Aug 2025 at 14:31hrs | 231 | by Staff reporter

Harare fails to procure tar, patches roads with soil

The City of Harare (CoH) has been without tar for over a year, forcing municipal workers to patch roads using soil and rubble, a stark indicator of the worsening state of basic service delivery in the capital.Residents and motorists have f…

Published: 13 Jun 2025 at 06:54hrs | 698 | by Staff reporter

Borrowdale road: A stretch of prestige shadowed by tragedy

Driving along Borrowdale Road offers a stark contrast to the chaotic scenes common on many other city roads. Known as the route favored by Zimbabwe's elite-politicians, business executives, and security officials-Borrowdale Road is a symbo…

Published: 07 Jun 2025 at 10:44hrs | | by Staff reporter

Harare City Council renames major roads

In a landmark move to celebrate African liberation heroes, prominent national figures, and influential global revolutionaries, the Harare City Council has officially renamed several of the capital's key roads. The announcement, made this w…

Published: 07 Jun 2025 at 10:43hrs | | by Staff reporter

Chinese miner rehabilitates BCC roads

Haulin Quarry Mine, a Chinese-owned mining company operating in Pumula, Bulawayo, has joined forces with local construction company ZADA to rehabilitate some of the city's most damaged roads. The initiative comes amid growing concerns over…

Published: 24 May 2025 at 10:57hrs | 344 | by Staff reporter

Court orders company to refund US$552,281 to Fidelity Gold Refinery

The High Court has ordered Curechem Overseas to refund US$552,281 to Fidelity Gold Refinery following a dispute over an agreement to supply small-scale miners with gold chemicals. The ruling comes after Fidelity approached the court, citin…

Published: 24 Apr 2025 at 07:29hrs | 309 | by Staff reporter

Ministers woo investment to Matebeleland

Provincial Affairs and Devolution Ministers from Bulawayo, Matebeleland North, and Matebeleland South have urged investors to explore the untapped opportunities in the region, stressing the potential for growth across various sectors, incl…

Published: 24 Apr 2025 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa blasts indiscipline on the roads

The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) must take decisive action to restore order on the country's roads by implementing the electronic traffic management system to reduce road carnage, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.Speaking at the Zim…

Published: 01 Mar 2025 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo Mayor rules out quick fix for City's deteriorating roads

Bulawayo Mayor David Coltart has acknowledged that the city's worsening road network crisis will not be resolved anytime soon due to a severe financial shortfall. The municipality requires approximately US$700 million for road rehabilitati…

Published: 07 Feb 2025 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter

80% of Matebeleland South roads untrafficable

At least 80% of the road infrastructure in Matebeleland South has been severely damaged by heavy rains that have pounded Zimbabwe in recent weeks, a Zanu-PF lawmaker has claimed. The province has been one of the hardest-hit areas, with flo…

Published: 02 Feb 2025 at 18:50hrs | | by Staff reporter

Pothole crisis turns Bulawayo roads into daily nightmares

Motorists in Bulawayo are facing a daunting challenge as potholes continue to multiply across the city, making major roads nearly impassable. The recent rains, while welcomed by residents and farmers, have worsened the already deterioratin…

Published: 28 Jan 2025 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter

2 more Mbudzi bridges, roads completed

The construction of two more bridges at the Mbudzi Interchange, south of Harare, has been completed, bringing the total number of finished bridges to 11 out of the 15 required. These two bridges, located on Amalinda Road and Harare Drive, …

Published: 09 Oct 2024 at 07:36hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter

Harare pledges to finally fix (some of) its pothole-ridden roads

IN Zimbabwe's capital of Harare, potholed roads have become a symbol of more than 20 years of national decline and neglect of public services.Motorists must weave down roads and often encroach onto oncoming traffic lanes to avoid the crate…

Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 11:30hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo Council revamps CBD roads

THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has embarked on a road rehabilitation exercise targeting major roads in the city centre.The roads rehabilitation is part of a number of key projects the local authority is pushing aimed at sprucing up the im…

Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 04:51hrs | | by Staff reporter

ZWL$12b windfall for Bulawayo roads

BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is set to receive a ZWL$12 billion windfall from the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) for road rehabilitation.According to latest council minutes, Zinara has indicated that the local authority's a…

Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:38hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Are Zimbabwe roads safe?

It is, indeed, the silly season, so silly that even the simplest of promises are used to secure votes.In this episode, some politicians have promised to "drive" their way to victory.Forget about dishing out broiler day old chicks, forget a…

Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 07:34hrs | 10 | by Jairos Saunyama

Mnangagwa's hectic schedule

PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will today lead key proceedings in a double hectic schedule in the resort city of Victoria Falls where he is set to officially open the End of Term Judges Symposium this morning and the inaugural Zimbabwe Economic Devel…

Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter

'We don't eat roads' mischief

There is a popular Chinese proverb which goes: "if you want to get rich, you have to build roads first", and this is often quoted to explain some of the accelerated development taking place in the Asian country.This proverb aptly applies t…

Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:33hrs | | by Lovemore Chikova

Bulawayo road rehab works begin

ROAD rehabilitation works have commenced in Bulawayo and contractors have started working on a section of Cecil Avenue as part of Government's Emergency Road Rehabilitation 2 (ERRP 2) Phase II meant to improve the city's road network.Gover…

Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 06:10hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Major road rehab projects begin in Bulawayo

A massive rehabilitation of critical roads is set to begin in Bulawayo under the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme Phase 2 (ERRP2), as the Government presses ahead with efforts to improve roads across the country.The roads earmarked …

Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Rains destroy roads in Gokwe

RESIDENTS of Gokwe North and South in Midlands province have appealed to government to rehabilitate roads after rains exposed their poor state.Most roads in Gokwe are not tarred, and are often washed away by rains.Rains that hit the area r…

Published: 29 Dec 2021 at 05:24hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo councillors slam 'shoddy' government road repairs in city

Bulawayo councillors on Wednesday slammed a government-led road rehabilitation exercise, questioning the workmanship which they said was shoddy.Speaking during a full council meeting, the councillors also claimed Bulawayo companies and wor…

Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 11:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

40 roads under rehab in Harare

THE Government has expressed satisfaction with progress in the rehabilitation of Seke Road under the Emergency Road Repair Programme Phase 2 (ERRP2) as the Second Republic continues prioritising infrastructure development projects countryw…

Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Emergency roads rehab starts ko Bulawayo

THE first phase of roadworks in Bulawayo under the Government-funded US$400 million Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme (ERRP) recently launched by President Mnangagwa, has started. Bulawayo was allocated more than $625 million for the…

Published: 11 May 2021 at 06:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

75% of Bulawayo roads in bad state

AT least 75 percent of Bulawayo's road network has outlived its lifespan, with council revealing that the funds they received from the Zimbabwe National Road Authority (Zinara) was a mere drop in the ocean compared to the money they actual…

Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter

Damaged urban roads need urgent attention

Importance of roads Recently I read an article by my former employer, the World Bank. The article explains that roads are the arteries through which the economy pulses. By linking producers to markets, workers to jobs, students to school, …

Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:17hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

ZUPCO withdraws buses from suburbs citing poor roads

PUBLIC transporter, the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) has withdrawn its services in some suburbs in Bulawayo citing poor roads.The current rains, economic challenges and poor management have combined to reduce the country's roa…

Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter

MDC August holiday road safety message to Zimbabwe

Fellow Zimbabweans, it is again the month of August, a month associated with high accident incidences on our highways.The month has seen record high fatalities in the previous years and the MDC is concerned by such a trend. August is a mon…

Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 17:26hrs | 2 | by Settlement Chikwinya

Use of bicycles and decongestion of the CBD

Recently the new Minister of Energy suggested that the use of bicycles could alleviate the fuel shortage in the country. But the fact is that the use of bicycles is another venture of going-back-to-the-future in that most suburbs, both low…

Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 09:22hrs | 2 | by Eng Bernard Musarurwa

Masiiwa Ragies Gunda, At the Crossroads: A Call to Christians to Act in Faith for an Alternative Zimbabwe

(University of Bamberg Press, 2018, pp. 113) Masiiwa Ragies Gunda's book is timely as the â€˜Zimbabwe crisis' is traced from 1997 to 2018. Although the backdrop of the 1997 period saw Zimbabwe entering into an unending crisis, Gunda begins…

Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 10:19hrs | 17 | by Brian Maregedze

Chamisa's dangerous post-fact politics

Has anyone ever stopped to ask themselves why Nelson Chamisa lies, is caught out and does not backtrack or apologise or retract but will repeat his lie or totally ignore the fact that he lied?Is he just an unrepentant compulsive liar or th…

Published: 08 May 2018 at 07:15hrs | 1 | by Nick Mangwana

Good roads a must, says Joram Gumbo

One way to guarantee that citizens' rights are protected is by ensuring that the country's infrastructure is usable all the time, a Cabinet minister has said. Officially opening the recently rehabilitated Zaire-St Mary's Road in Hwedza on …

Published: 21 Mar 2018 at 05:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabweans are enablers and are to blame for Mugabe thinking Zimbabwe is 2nd most developed country in Africa

It is easy to blame our 93-year-old president for all the things that go wrong in the country but I think it is high time we look at ourselves in the mirror and see exactly what we really are, enablers.When Mugabe says 'the Zimbabwe he kno…

Published: 02 Jun 2017 at 14:54hrs | 1 | by Nomalizwe Mbulu

Concrete roads, the concrete solution

Zimbabwe has lost thousands of breadwinners on its highways leaving orphans whose path of life will be left to the hands of fate. Together with poor driving, the poor state of the roads is a cause for alarm. Losses incurred on the roads al…

Published: 14 Mar 2017 at 12:56hrs | 2 | by Chigumbu Warikandwa

ZAPU secretary for transport challenges Zanu-PF and Joram Gumbo

ZAPU as a national party through its secretary for transport challenges Zanu and its minister of transport and infrastructure Joram Gumbo.Zanu is accused of failing to govern resulting to underdevelopment and poor infrastructure countrywid…

Published: 10 Jan 2017 at 20:49hrs | | by Patrick Matsinhanise ZAPU secretary for transport.

Why we will continue to die on our roads

South Africa  ranks among African countries with the highest rates of death arising from road accidents and this despite the fact that the African continent is one of the least motorised regions in the world. In a Global status report…

Published: 18 Mar 2013 at 11:51hrs | | by Velempini Ndlovu

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