Plans for a high-speed rail link between Harare and Bulawayo have been unveiled, as China continues cementing its place in Zimbabwe.
The multi-billion dollar plan was announced in Harare on Wednesday and forms part of a partnership between the Zim government and the China International Fund Consortium.
The head of the China Railways Corporation, Zhao Guangfa, said at the unveiling of the project that they plan to build a build a modern railway line between Harare and Bulawayo, with a high speed train running the route.
This plan, which is likely to take about three years to come to life, could potentially see commuters from Bulawayo take one and a half hours to travel to Harare.
Guangfa said that the China International Fund Consortium will also upgrade the Beitbridge-Harare and the Harare-Chirundu highways. These projects will take about a year to complete.
A number of other agreements, yet to be revealed, have also been signed off by the government, which will see the Chinese Consortium fund other projects in the country.
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THAT'S WHAT WE "AFRICANS" WANT TO SEE IN MANY AFRICAN COUNTRIES - DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS FOR NOT ONLY FOR THE AFRICAN COUNTRIES BUT FOR THE PEOPLE THEMSELVES, "THE AFRICANS". CONGRATULATION ZIMBABWE, JOB WELL DONE. YOU HAVE FIGHT THE WAR, AND NOW, IT'S TIME TO SHOW MASSIVE LOVE TO THE PEOPLE OF ZIMBABWE AND THE REST OF THE CONTINENT. AGAIN, JOB WELL DONE.
While the Chinese played a very crucial role in the liberation of our county,they have in a short space of time,been able to take more than enough of what Zimbabweans owe them.They have taken over the economy and the army. Welcome Chinese democrat for a change.Welcome half done jobs,substandard things and state repression.
The chinese will build a railway and in the same time take twenty times that cost of raw materials becuause Mugabe has sold Zimbabwe to the chinese. and then the chinese will manage the railway line at twenty times the normal cost to steal some more of our wealth. very good zimbabweans. dont you realise nothing is for free and in particular when dealing with the chinese. Is the next thing going to be having to learn chinese in our schools? Who are anext masters - the chinese. We will never be free under the likes of zanupf and muagbe. Mugabes heart has always been chinese. Thats why bono goes to school there. thats where he has stashed the stolen millions. come on zimbabweans wake up.
With the Chinese guys, they also take their know-how back to china with them leaving the Africans just as ignorant about whatever jobs they were doing. They do not part their knowledge.
Watch out for your Rhino horns, elephant ivory and anything else that moves which fits into the wok. With millions of abortions a year in China due to the fact of the one child policy, China has a lucrative business in co-operation with drug companies crushing the aborted fetuses into a powdered capsule used as a fix-all medication including for sexual endurance. The contents of the capsules have been found to be 99.7% human remains and in some instances even the genders of the human remains have been ascertained. Man!!!