Transport and Infrastructural Development minister, Obert Mpofu, has said last week that construction works on the Bulawayo-Tsholotsho Road has started. The minister was speaking in Lupane at the Matabeleland North inter-district provincial congress.
Construction of the 112-kilometre-long road will be crucial to improve accessibility. For the last two decades, only 50km of the road have been done as money for the project was diverted to other projects.
“I think those from Tsholotsho have seen the graders on that road, and we will also be moving in to do the Bulawayo-Nkayi Road,” he said.
The Nkayi-Bulawayo Road project also started off over two decades ago but has been a start-stop kind of project. Their neighbors Zambia are undertaking the Link Zambia 8000 roads construction/rehabilitation projects, which will take US$ 5.3bn.
