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

BUSINESS NEWS

Geiger loses $1bn Zimbabwe highway tender

Cabinet has resolved to withdraw the tender awarded to Austrian firm, Geiger International, for the dualisation of the Harare-Beitbridge-Chirundu Highway, President Mnangagwa announced yesterday.Brief...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 April 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

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...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 March 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

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-Masving...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 February 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Chirundu highway to create youth jobs

GOVERNMENT has assured youths in Mashonaland West that they will benefit from employment created through the dualisation of the Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu Highway.The Harare-Chirundu Highway, which st...

By Staff reporter | Published: 27 November 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Highway dualisation project gets national status

Government has granted national project status to the 3million  Beitbridge-Chirundu highway dualisation project following months of protracted negotiations. dualisation project following months o...

By Staff reporter | Published: 16 October 2017

CONSTRUCTION & PROPERTY

Lafarge banks on highway upgrade

LAFARGE Cement Zimbabwe, a member of the Swiss-headquartered LafargeHolcim, last week reported declines in volumes and turnover for the half year ended June 30, 2017 but hopes major public infrastruct...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 October 2017
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