Online Reporter
Freeman Razemba
Senior Reporter
GOVERNMENT has installed state-of-the-art lighting infrastructure along Harare-Kanyemba Road to enhance nighttime visibility, improve road user safety and contribute to a more efficient and secure travel experience.
The Harare-Kanyemba Corridor enhances connectivity to Zambia and southern Tanzania and includes the refurbishment of Kanyemba Border Post.
In a statement, the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development said, “The Harare–Kanyemba Road Project urban section has reached another significant milestone with the installation of modern LED street lighting along the urban stretch of the corridor.
“Mounted on durable galvanised steel single-arm poles and strategically spaced at regular intervals on both sides of the dual carriageway, the new lighting system delivers uniform, high-intensity illumination across the full width of the roadway.
“This state-of-the-art lighting infrastructure will greatly enhance nighttime visibility, improve road user safety, and contribute to a more efficient and secure travel experience along this vital northern corridor.
“The installation marks tangible progress in the modernisation of one of Zimbabwe’s key strategic road networks, underscoring the Government’s commitment to delivering world-class transport infrastructure that supports connectivity, trade, and economic development.”
Progress has so far been made on the Harare-Kanyemba Highway, which is being rehabilitated under a public-private partnership over three years.
The full scope of the project includes the construction of new toll plazas.
To date, 18,3 kilometres of the newly dualised Harare-Mazowe section is now open to traffic, while surfacing of a 3,7km section leading to Blue Ridge shops is underway.
Other major road projects include the US$262 million Harare-Nyamapanda Road, scheduled for completion by 2029, which incorporates the modernisation of the Nyamapanda Border Post to strengthen the eastern trade corridor with Mozambique.
The Gweru-Zvishavane-Rutenga-Boli-Sango Road will be rehabilitated for US$450 million by 2030, improving access to the Lowveld and strengthening links to northern Mozambique.
The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development confirmed that progress was being made on the rehabilitation of the Harare-Kanyemba Road and other roads countrywide.
Zimbabwe intensified its infrastructure development drive last year, undertaking large-scale projects across the country as part of the Government’s broader push to attain a prosperous and empowered upper middle-income society in the next four years.
Central to this transformation has been sustained investment in road rehabilitation and modernisation under the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme 2 (ERRP2), alongside flagship infrastructure projects that are reshaping the country’s transport network, easing congestion and improving regional trade connectivity.
Since the launch of ERRP2 in 2021, more than 50 000km of road have been rehabilitated nationwide, while over 2 000 bridges and road structures have been repaired or upgraded.
This has significantly improved road conditions across a network estimated at 84 000 kilometres, the bulk of which was previously classified as being in fair to poor condition.
