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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

Haulage trucks damage Matebeleland roads

MATEBELELAND South Senator Solani Moyo has expressed concern over the damage caused by haulage trucks to road infrastructure in Matebeleland and other areas across the country.Moyo made the remarks while contributing to a debate in Parliam…

Published: 17 Jul 2025 at 08:51hrs | 229 | 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 | 411 | 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 | 1333 | 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 | 216 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe plans to construct high-rise flats in rural district centres

The Government of Zimbabwe is set to embark on an ambitious plan to construct high-rise flats at rural district centres, with initial construction already underway in Mashonaland East province, according to the Ministry of National Housing…

Published: 24 Apr 2025 at 07:26hrs | 205 | by Staff reporter

ZITF instant driver's licence printing a hit

In a breakthrough for service delivery, hundreds of citizens have received their plastic driver's licences within minutes of passing road tests at the ongoing Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF), marking a dramatic improvement from th…

Published: 24 Apr 2025 at 07:25hrs | 506 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe unveils coal tar project

The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development, in collaboration with the Research Council of Zimbabwe, has launched a groundbreaking initiative aimed at transforming road construction and rehabilitation in Zimbabwe. The innovat…

Published: 24 Apr 2025 at 07:23hrs | 237 | by Staff reporter

ZINARA paid out 88% of its collections to councils for roadworks

The Zimbabwe National Road Administration (ZINARA) disbursed ZWG 4.7 billion (US$224.9 million) to local authorities in 2024 for road maintenance, accounting for 88 percent of its total collections.In a statement on Thursday, ZINARA reveal…

Published: 20 Mar 2025 at 16:14hrs | 258 | 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 | 123 | 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 | 240 | 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 | 1155 | by Staff reporter

Upmarket memorial park for war veterans

The Memories of Zimbabwe's Armed Struggle Trust (MOZAST) has joined forces with Watervlei Burial Park to establish a state-of-the-art cemetery honoring individuals who contributed to the country's liberation struggle. The partnership aims …

Published: 28 Jan 2025 at 07:01hrs | 173 | 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 | 324 | by Staff reporter

BCC spends only US$700,000 on roads per year

The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has revealed that it allocates approximately US$700,000 annually to road rehabilitation programs, relying on private sector contractors to supplement its efforts due to limited internal resources.With 70% of…

Published: 24 Dec 2024 at 12:34hrs | 119 | 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

Zimbabwe to utilise PPPs to expedite roads rehab in Matebeleland

The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development says it is utilising Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) to expedite the rehabilitation of some dilapidated roads in the Matabeleland region.This was announced by Deputy Minister Jos…

Published: 26 Jul 2024 at 09:05hrs | 755 | 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 | 5 | 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

Potholes re-emerge in wake of recent rains

HEAVY rains being recorded across the country have caused more extensive damage to some major roads in Bulawayo, which are now riddled with potholes making driving a nightmare in the city. Apart from the issue of potholed roads, there is p…

Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 07:30hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe flyovers a ticking time bomb

RESIDENTS in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, are suing the government over some defective flyovers.The residents, through their association, Harare Residents Trust (HRT) are seeking a High Court order to compel Transport and Infrastructura…

Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 10:23hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

Binga villagers cry foul

VILLAGERS in Chinego area in Chief Pashu area, Binga have appealed to the government to urgently rehabilitate a road that links to Kariangwe which was damaged by rains last rainy season.Government declared the state of the road network in …

Published: 10 Oct 2023 at 20:02hrs | 3 | by Peter Matuka

Zinara takes the blame for poor state of Victoria Falls road

ZIMBABWE National Road Administration (Zinara) chief executive officer, Mr Nkosinathi Ncube, yesterday apologised to stakeholders over the dilapidated state of the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Highway, which is now littered with potholes.The bu…

Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa fixes roads to polling stations in rural strongholds

Zimbabwe's government says it has launched a blitz to grade roads and grant easy access to polling stations by voters in Zanu PF's stronghold rural areas ahead of high stakes elections due 23 August this year.The programme was announced at…

Published: 30 Jun 2023 at 14:45hrs | 3 | 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

Zimbabwe govt moves in on Beitbridge roads

TRANSPORT and Infrastructure Development Minister Felix Mhona has said Government is working on a raft of measures to assist Beitbridge Municipality to repair and upgrade its major roads in line with the border and town's transformation in…

Published: 17 Mar 2023 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter

$130 billion Zimdollars earmarked for massive roadworks

ZIMBABWE will double down on road development projects this year, with Treasury and the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (ZINARA) injecting over $130 billion to rehabilitate about 10 000 kilometres under the second phase of the Emerg…

Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 09:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's 24 500km road network to be revamped by 2025

THIS week Zimbabwe Independent (ZI) business reporter, Freeman Makopa caught up with Transport and Infrastructural Development minister Felix Mhona (FM) to discuss updates in the progress of crucial infrastructural development projects tha…

Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 17:55hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter

'Harare roads unsafe'

HARARE Metropolitan provincial secretary Tafadzwa Muguti has said the capital city's roads are no longer safe to drive on.Speaking during a tour of Satewave Technologies premises in Chisipite yesterday, Muguti said: "We want to move away f…

Published: 15 Nov 2022 at 04:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

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

New toll plazas to be constructed on Zimbabwe roads

THE Government will soon start constructing toll plazas along major highways to address congestion at the toll gates countrywide, a Cabinet Minister has said.A toll plaza has more lanes compared to a toll gate thereby allowing many cars to…

Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 06:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

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

Zinara disburses $7,8bn for roads

THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) yesterday said it had so far this year disbursed $7,8 billion to local authorities for road rehabilitation projects under the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme.In a statement, Zinara…

Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Zinara says, 'We are now reformed'

State-run Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara), which has been red-flagged in multiple reports by the Auditor General (AG) and parliament for unbridled levels of corruption, looting and nepotism says it has reformed.In her previo…

Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 10:08hrs | 15 | 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

BCC ropes in private players on roads

LACK of plant and equipment has forced the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to contract private companies to re-gravel city roads.The local authority has only one functional grader and was in sixes and sevens on the way forward after receiving …

Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:44hrs | | 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

Chinese miners' trucks damaging our roads: Mayor

GWERU mayor Josiah Makombe has blamed Chinese-owned mining vehicles for damaging city roads.Makombe said the Midlands capital was witnessing a proliferation of Chinese companies venturing into chrome smelting, but contributing little to in…

Published: 17 Dec 2021 at 23:41hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

BCC road rehabilitation programme behind schedule

BULAWAYO City Council's (BCC) road re-gravelling programme is behind schedule by two months due to constant breakdown of its ageing plant machinery, a council report on on-going roadworks in the city has revealed.Early this month, the Zimb…

Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 06:48hrs | 2 | 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

'Dubious' contractors prejudice Zinara of US$71,5 million

THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) could have been prejudiced of about US$71,5 million in special projects undertaken with a number of "questionable and dubious" contractors between 2012 and 2015, according to the Public Ac…

Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 08:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

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