Government has granted national project status to the U.S.$1 billion Beitbridge-Harare Highway dualisation project, setting the stage for the contractor to start bringing equipment into the country duty free. Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Dr Joram Gumbo yesterday said the national project status was one of the conditions which Government had to fulfil before actual construction of the road could begin.
As such, he said, the contractor, Geiger International of Austria, would be on the ground beginning next month.
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