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Zimbabwe rolls out multi-billion-dollar overhaul of major highways

Zimbabwe will next year initiate a sweeping US$3 billion road rehabilitation and upgrade programme targeting four major national highways, in what government officials describe as one of the most ambi...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 December 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Bulawayo-Victoria Falls highway progress update

Motorists and tourists travelling between Bulawayo and Victoria Falls are expected to enjoy a smoother and safer journey this festive season, as contractors working on the rehabilitation of the major...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 December 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Victoria Falls highway rehab injects over 300 jobs

The ongoing revamp of the Bulawayo–Victoria Falls Road has already created more than 300 direct jobs for locals, while empowering women and delivering a host of community benefits, officials and co...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 December 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe's southern corridor highway overhaul

The rehabilitation of the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls highway and the proposed upgrade of the Beitbridge-Bulawayo road under a public-private partnership (PPP) model are set to accelerate economic growth ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 October 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe's highway detours remain death traps

Motorists navigating Zimbabwe's major highways, particularly the Beitbridge to Harare and Beitbridge to Bulawayo routes, continue to face a perilous reality marked by armed robberies, fatal accidents,...

By Staff reporter | Published: 15 September 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Harare-Mazowe road dualisation opens key sections

A major milestone in Zimbabwe's road infrastructure upgrade was achieved yesterday with the opening of a 3.3km stretch of the Harare-Mazowe road dualisation project, bringing relief to motorists long...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 September 2025

CONSTRUCTION & PROPERTY

Final phase of Harare-Beitbridge highway resume

Construction works on the outstanding sections of the Harare-Beitbridge Highway have resumed in earnest, with contractors now on-site to complete the final 88 kilometres of the 580-kilometre flagship ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 May 2025

CONSTRUCTION & PROPERTY

'Bulawayo-Vic Falls Road upgrading to take 10 months'

Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Felix Mhona has confirmed that the long-awaited rehabilitation of the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Road will resume next month and is expected to be compl...

By Staff reporter | Published: 16 April 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Govt boosts completion drive on Harare - Beitbridge highway

The Government has released a new tranche of funding to expedite the completion of outstanding sections of the Harare - Beitbridge Highway, with contractors now back on site and working at full thrott...

By Staff reporter | Published: 14 April 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Beitbridge-Masvingo highway project begins

Work to widen and upgrade the Beitbridge-Masvingo highway has finally begun in Chivhu with graders and earthmoving equipment now busy carrying out detour works on the first 10 kilometer stretch.The pr...

By Staff reporter | Published: 20 November 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Dualisation of the Mutare-Plumtree highway taking shape

The dualisation of the Mutare-Plumtree highway is taking shape with the government expected to commission the Ruwa-Goromonzi up to Melfort tollgate stretch which have been dualised while the construct...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zim engages Chinese firm over highway road

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...

By Staff reporter | Published: 09 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Makuti-Chirundu highway deal to create 250 jobs

A DEAL signed by Zimbabwe and Japan last week to improve steep gradients on the Makuti-Chirundu section of the north-south corridor will create 250 jobs, according to a statement by the Ministry of Fi...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

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.Top ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

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...

By Staff reporter | Published: 27 June 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Complete markings along Harare-Bulawayo Highway

KADOMA residents have called on Government and the contractor who upgraded the Harare-Bulawayo Highway to put road carriage markings such as zebra crossings on portions of the highway within the city ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 June 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Harare-Nyamapanda highway dualisation soon

Dualisation of the Harare-Nyamapanda Highway is set to commence this year as Government moves to reduce road carnage, a Cabinet minister has said.Addressing people at Hurungwe Primary School in Murehw...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 June 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Bulawayo-Harare highway: A sad reminder that nothing has changed

Under a gigantic Zanu-PF colourful election campaign billboard covered with the image of a half-smiling president of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, is a small stall manned by a middle-aged vendor sell...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 June 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

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...

By Staff reporter | Published: 28 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

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...

By Staff reporter | Published: 17 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe's deadliest highway

At least 44% of road fatalities in the country occur along the Plumtree-Bulawayo-Mutare highway which was resurfaced a few years ago at a cost of over $200 million, Transport minister Joram Gumbo has ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 14 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Bulawayo-Plumtree highway perimeter fence commissioned

The government through the Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe has completed the erection of a perimeter fence for the 100 kilometer stretch of the Bulawayo-Plumtree highway in a move that will signifi...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

New contractor gets Chirundu-BB 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 ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 25 April 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Chiwenga instigated cancellation of Zim highway tender

President Emmerson Mnangagwa's decision to cancel Geiger International contract to dualise the BeitBrigde-Harare-Chirundu highway was instigated by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's “serious pro...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 April 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Confusion over Zim's $1billion highway 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...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 April 2018
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