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The Government has over the years come up with a number of strategies to remove trade barriers and enhance the smooth flow of people and cargo through its land borders.
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TimesLIVE THE busiest land border in Southern Africa will experience six weeks of delays as a result of an ongoing upgrade project. Beitbridge border post, which has about 25,000 people and 500 trucks passing through daily, has been closed to non-commercial traffic since January to stop the spread of Covid-19. The border post connects Zimbabwe and SA but also serves as the transit point for the majority of north-south trade in Southern Africa. The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) said the “border post traffic handling capacity has been significantly impacted upon” as a result of ongoing...
STEVEN MADZIMURE The Mnangagwa family, involved in business in various sectors of the economy, particularly since his ascendancy through a military coup in 2017, later legitimised via a disputed 2018 election, clashed with Mohadi over a dry port project in Beitbridge and a gold mine in Penhalonga where politicians and their cronies have invaded the area, turning it into a vast artisanal mining field. Mohadi was also unhappy that he had been left out of the US$300 million border renovation and modernisation project by Zimborders Consortium, fronted by its chairman Glynn Cohen, linked to the Mn...
Beitbridge Border Post undergoes upgrade Beitbridge Bureau COMPLETION of the US$300 million Beitbridge border post modernisation project will speed up the roll out of the One-Stop border post concept between Zimbabwe and South Africa, the Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Professor Mthuli Ncube, has said. Beitbridge Border Post is undergoing an extensive upgrade through a Public-Private Partnership arrangement between Government and Zimborders Consortium, a group of local and South African financiers who are funding the project. Prof Ncube told The Sunday Mail that traffic between...