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Heavy traffic snakes through downtown Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, manoeuvring along the potholed roads as impatient motorists hoot at one other, while pedestrians try to cross the congested streets, weaving through slow-moving cars.
By Farayi Machamire Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) has admitted that the country’s roads are now a “national embarrassment”, but argued they could not do much as a huge chunk of their revenue was being gobbled by heavy taxes. The Administration refused to shoulder the blame for the country’s derelict roads, contending that local authorities […]