BEITBRIDGE-BULAWAYO-VICTORIA FALLS HIGHWAY PROJECT GETS UNDER WAY; ANOTHER LANDMARK DELIVERY FROM PRESIDENT MNANGAGWA

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Story By Taonga Botolo

President Emmerson Mnangagwa is leaving no stone unturned. While, rehabilitation of the nearly 600 kilometer Beitbridge-Harare Highway is almost half way done, another massive road project is set to begin.

Preparatory works on traffic surveys on the nearly 800 kilometer Beitbridge-Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Highway have gotten underway.

So far the feasibility study on the rehabilitation and upgrading of the super highway is in progress.

Meanwhile, recruitment of enumerators to carry out the feasilibility studies is also in progress.

The enumerators are expected to carry out traffic count exercise which will determine on whether the Highway must be dualised or simply resurfacing as is the case with Beitbridge-Harare project.

South Africa based construction firm Khato Civils and its subsidiary South Zambezi, both owned by billionaire businessman Simbi Phiri, signed a deal in 2019 to rehabilitate both Beitbridge-Bulawayo and Beitbridge-Victoria Falls Highways.

The deal will see the two firms and Zimre Holdings carrying out the mega projects in a build, operate and transfer arrangement.

President Mnangagwa’s government has set aside nearly US$5 billion for construction, rehabilitation and resurfacing of roads in both urban and rural areas.

This is part of Mnangagwa’s vision to make Zimbabwe a middle income economy by 2030.

The projects currently under way in all the 10 provinces are creating thousands of jobs among the locals.

Once completed, Beitbridge-Bulawayo-Victoria Falls will be a strategic corridor between South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia.