Online Reporter
Freeman Razemba
Senior Reporter
Contractors have completed about 540 km of the Harare -Beitbridge Highway that have been opened to traffic, with only 43 km now remaining to clear the project.
The rehabilitation of the Harare-Beitbridge Highway and modernisation of the Beitbridge Border Post to bring in efficient systems aimed at reducing or eliminating delays are two of the signature projects of President Mnangagwa’s administration.
Beitbridge Border Post has already been commissioned by the President and users of arguably the busiest land border in the SADC region commended the speed with which they were being cleared, and the ease of clearance over the festive period.
Five local companies were contracted to undertake the rehabilitation of the highway and they are Tensor Systems, Masimba Holdings, Fossil Contracting, Exodus & Company, and Bitumen World.
The scope of the project involves dualisation, upgrading and tolling of the highway. The entire north-south corridor has been divided into three sections: the 580 km Harare-Beitbridge Highway together with eight toll plazas, the 342 km Harare-Chirundu Highway with six toll plazas, and the 59 km Harare Ring Road with three toll plazas. These tolls are what pay for the rehabilitation and maintenance of the road.
In a communique, the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development, confirmed the developments over the Harare-Beitbridge Road rehabilitation and upgrading project, as of November 30, 2025.
“A 3.8 km of four lanes has been opened to traffic along the Ngundu Section,” reads the communique.
According to the ministry, Bitumen World has so far completed 128.80km, Fossil Contracting 122.6km, Masimba Holdings 100km, Exodus and Co 90.6km, Tensor Systems 90km, while a trial section of 7.2km has also been completed, making a total of 539.2km which have been completed and opened to traffic.
The Government has also come up with the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme 2 (ERRP2), not only to focus on major highways, but also those roads in suburbs of towns and cities that have been abandoned by councils over the years, leaving motorists to navigate potholes and increasing the cost of owning and operating vehicles.
Over 2 000km of roads have been re-gravelled, while 6 627,9 km have been graded, with 701 drainage structures constructed or repaired and 184 wash-aways reclaimed.
Across the country, 4 491,5 km of drains have been opened while 6 141,2 km of verges have been cleared.
Progress was also made on the patching of potholes, with 4 794,8 km of road having been attended to.
Dams, roads, bridges, hospitals, clinics and schools have been constructed, while irrigation schemes that stopped operating several years ago, have been resuscitated by President Mnangagwa’s administration.
The President has said that with more economic activities now taking place across the country, Zimbabweans are guaranteed a massive improvement in their living standards in line with Vision 2030 of an empowered and prosperous upper-middle-income society.
