Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu highway to undergo rehabilitation

11 Oct, 2018 - 12:10 0 Views
Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu highway to undergo rehabilitation

eBusiness Weekly

 HARARE – The Zimbabwe government will channel $150 million towards the rehabilitation of sections of the Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu highway while awaiting completion of  negotiations with Chinese construction company, AFECC for the  dualisation of the road, a Cabinet Minister has said.

Acting Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister July  Moyo said Cabinet had noted with concern the bad state of the road.

This, he said, necessitated urgent repair works on the road.

“(Cabinet resolved) that the framework agreement between AFECC and the  republic of Zimbabwe on the Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu highway  dualisation project be signed in order to secure the necessary  commitments from AFECC,” he said.

“The $150 million already mobilized by a Zinara bond with Old Mutual be  utilized to rehabilitate and upgrade sections of the road using local  contractors while waiting for the finalization of the negotiations with  AFECC.”

Rehabilitation and dualisation of the road has been on the cards for  years now, but the project has failed to take off on several occasions  for various reasons.

The latest reason was because the company which had won the tender for  the project, Austrian firm Geiger failed to raise funds required for the  project prompting government to cancel the tender.

The project was handed over to AFECC which had come second in the previous tender, but initial reports suggested that negotiations between  the two parties had stalled. – New Ziana

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