Zimbabwe National Roads Administration


The Zimbabwe National Roads Administration is a Zimbabwean parastatal responsible for the management, maintenance and development of Zimbabwe's national road network.

Background

The Zimbabwe National Road Administration
falls under the Ministry of Transport, Communication and Infrastructural Development and was established in August 2001, in terms of the Roads Act of 2001 with the aim of enhancing road network system throughout the Zimbabwe.
ZINARA's vision and mission is to become a world class road manager, providing secure, stable and adequate reservoir of funds, to fund effectively maintenance of the national road network through fixing, collection, disbursement and monitoring of funds usage for preservation, enhancement and sustainable development.

Governance

ZINARA is run under the Ministry of Transport, Communication and Infrastructural Development
ZINARA consists of a part-time Board of Directors which serves for a three-year period, and a full-time CEO. It has 12 board members and 7 senior managers in 7 departments.

Board Members

ZINARA Board Members as of Monday, 8 October 2019 were 12 members:
• The Board Chairman
• The Vice - Board Chairman
• The 10 Board Members

Executive team

The ZINARA Executive team as on Monday, 28 October 2019 were as follows:
• Mr. S. Muzenda
• Mr. G. Moyo
• Mrs. V. Muzite

Road Authorities

The Zimbabwe National Roads Administration is responsible for managing the Road Fund and disbursing the local road authorities.
The local road authorities are:
• The Department of Roads in the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Development which is responsible for trunk roads.
• The Urban Councils responsible for urban roads.
• The Rural District Councils and the District Development Fund which are responsible rural roads.

Road Network

The road network excluding urban roads totals 76,241 km of which
9,256 km or 12.1% are bitumen surfaced.
Road Network Thursday, 1 November 2012 10:31 Most of these roads are more than 30 years and therefore requires complete rehabilitation works. ZINARA has in the past 9 years been able to fund the routine and periodic maintenance countrywide.

Road Categories

Classified roads fall under three categories.
1. Regional Trunk Road Network :
Roads linking countries within southern African region.
2. Secondary Roads:
Those roads that connect regional, primary, tertiary and urban roads, industrial and mining centers, tourist attractions and minor border posts are the secondary roads.
3. Tertiary Roads:
Those roads which provide access to schools, health centers, dip tanks and other service facilities within a rural district council area or connect and provide access to secondary, primary and regional roads.
Total Road Network in Zimbabwe is 87,654 km which include the paved or unpaved, the urban, rural and state roads.
• State Highways 18,460 km
• Urban Roads 8,194 km
• Rural Roads 61,000 km

Road Names

Road and Route numbers in Zimbabwe may differ depending on the route concerned.
Previously, national routes were denoted with the letter "A" followed by a number indicating the specific route. Today the "A" numbers are just Map Reference Numbers known by not much of the populace.
Today primary roads on Zimbabwe are denoted with the letter "P" followed by a number indicating the specific route.
Primary roads which are regional road corridors are denoted with the letter "R" followed by a number indicating the internal regional road corridor.
Unlike in South Africa where routes are clearly numbered and labeled as such, most roads in Zimbabwe are publicly known by their common names or destinations.

Zimbabwe “A” Highways (1975)

SOURCES:
List NumberMap Section NumberTrunk Road NumberCommon Name
1A1R3Harare-Chirundu Highway
2A2R4Harare-Nyamapanda Highway
3A3R5Harare-Mutare Highway
4A4R1Harare-Beitbridge Highway
5A5R2Harare-Bulawayo Highway
6A6R9Beitbridge-Gwanda Highway
7A7R2Bulawayo Plumtree Highway
8A8R9Victoria Falls Highway
9A9P4Mutare-Masvingo Highway
10A10P5Ngundu-Tanganda Road
11A11P1Harare-Mt Darwin Highway
12A12-Mazowe=Centenary Highway
13A13-Harare-Shamva Highway
14A14-Rusape-Juliusdale Highway
15A15-Mutare-Nyanga Highway
16A16-Birchenough Bridge-Chipinga Highway
17A17R7Gweru-Mvuma Highway
18A18-Gweru-Shurugwi
19M15 HighwayP12Makuti-Kariba Highway

Primary Roads (Ordinary)

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Regional Road Corridors

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SADC Regional Trunk Road Network

being a member state of SADC, ZINARA works in conjunction with other regional road authorities and it does its part on regional road corridors passing through Zimbabwe.
Regional Trunk Roads Network in Zimbabwe in proportion of total regional trunk roads are as follows:
• Reference Roads: 1 600 km
• Intermediate Roads: 1 000 km
• Branch, Link and Connecting Roads: 1 100 km
• Total 3 700 km
• Regional Percentage: 6%
So ZINARA does only 6% of regional trunk roads.

SADC Numbered Roads

The regional organization, Southern African Development Community has its own numbered routes which usually are a combination of multiple roads across one or more member countries.
The Southern African Development Community Regional Trunk Road Network is a system of numbered road corridors in Southern Africa. The most important part of the network is the reference roads, which are major trans-regional routes.

Operations

ZINARA’s core business, in consultations with the minister of transport, communication and infrastructural development is fixing road user charges and collect such charges or any other revenue of the road fund.
The Zimbabwe National Roads Administration
• Fixes the levels of road user charges.
• Collects RUC as well as other revenue of the Road Fund.
• Sets maintenance, design, construction and technical standards.
• Monitors adherence to such standards by Road Authorities.
• Allocates and disburse to road authorities funds from the Road Fund in accordingly.
• Audits the use of funds from the Road Fund.
• Monitors implementation of road maintenance works by Road Authorities.
• Assists Road Authorities in making annual or multi-year road maintenance rolling plans.

Road Fund

The Road Fund was established in terms of the Roads Act of 2001 with the objective to provide a stable, adequate, secure and sustainable source of funding for road maintenance work in Zimbabwe.
The Road Fund comes from, Road user charges, Appropriations from Parliament and Grants. The fund is then used for routine and periodic road maintenance of roads and other roads related projects approved by the ZINARA Board.
The main source of ZINARA funds are the vehicle licence fees, fuel levy, toll roads and transit fees. Toll roads fees could be the main contributor now because the toll gates have risen from 23 as of 2011 to 36 as of December 2015 nationwide.

International Transit Tolls

International transit tolls are collected from foreign buses and heavy goods vehicles at border posts as they enter Zimbabwe. These cross-border charges are levied according to the distance each vehicle is to travel while inside Zimbabwe.
International transit coupons are purchased in advance in foreign currency, and the revenue is paid to ZINARA. Each transit vehicle along the RTRN is issued a permit which states the destination of that particular vehicle.
Local and foreign light motor vehicles, as well as on local heavy motor vehicles entering Zimbabwe except those with coupons paid in advance, are levied with the Road Access Toll at all border posts. A flat rate, in cash, is charged in accordance with the vehicle category.

Toll Gates

Most highways linking cities are now toll roads following the construction of 36 toll plazas throughout the country. These are State of art tollgates are the first in the world to be 100% self-sufficient and solar powered.
Toll Points Table
Plaza numberMap Section NumberTrunk Road NumberCommon NameToll PlazaLocationNearest Center
1A3R5Harare-Mutare HighwayRuwa35.11 km from Harare
2A3R5Harare-Mutare HighwayCrocodile14 km from Rusape
3A3R5Harare-Mutare HighwayRiverside18 km from Mutare
4A2R4Harare-Nyamapanda HighwayEnterprise Road20 km from Harare
5A1R3Harare-Chirundu HighwayInkomo43 km from Harare
6A1R3Harare-Chirundu HighwayLions' Den22 km from Chinhoyi
7A5R2Harare-Bulawayo HighwayNorton44.5 km from Harare
8A5R2Harare-Bulawayo HighwayKadoma14 km from Kadoma
9A4R1Harare-Beitbridge HighwaySkyline19 km from Harare
10A4R1Harare-Beitbridge HighwayMushagashi32 km from Masvingo
11A11P1Harare-Mt Darwin HighwayEskbank18 km from Harare
12A5R2Harare-Bulawayo HighwayTreetop17 km from Gweru
13A5R2Bulawayo-GweruCement17 km from Bulawayo
14A18-Gweru-ShurugwiFlamingo10 km from Gweru
15A17R7Gweru-Mvuma HighwaySino37 km from Gweru
16A7R2Bulawayo-Plumtree HighwayFigtree36.8 km from Bulawayo
17A8R9Victoria Falls HighwayCindêrella6 km from Hwange
18A8R9Victoria Falls HighwayUmguza Turn Off18 km from Bulawayo
19A6R9Beitbridge-Gwanda HighwayNaude Quarry11.7 km from Beitbridge
20A6R9Bulawayo-Beitbridge HighwayEsigodini37 km from Bulawayo
21A4R1Masvingo-Beitbridge HighwayLutumba23 km from Beitbridge
22A4R1Masvingo-Beitbridge HighwayChivi Turn Off45 km from Masvingo
23A9P4Mutare-Masvingo HighwayMashayamvura32 km from Mutare
24A9P7Masvingo-Bulawayo HighwayMashava54 km from Masvingo
25--Harare-Seke RoadSeke-Chitungwiza35.1 km from Harare
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27A4R1Harare-Masvingo HighwayHoneyspruitBetween 126–127 km peg14 km before Chivhu-
28A4R1Masvingo-Beitbridge HighwayMweneziBetween 171–172 km peg
25.5 km from Rutenga
29A1R3Harare-Chirundu HighwayKaroiBetween 224.5-225.5 km peg21 km from Karoi
30-P14Victoria Falls-Kazungula RoadKazungulaBetween 13–14 km peg13.3 km from
Victoria Falls
31A6R9Bulawayo-Beitbridge HighwayColleen BawnBetween 155–156 km peg29.5 km from Gwanda
32A9P4Mutare-Masvingo HighwayLothianBetween 260–261 km peg37 km before Masvingo
33A11P1Harare-Bindura-Mt.Darwin HighwayMfurudziBetween 112–112 km peg24 km from
Bindura
34-R6Chivhu-Nyazura HighwayMagambaBetween 17.0-18.0 km peg
17.5 km from Chivhu
35A10P5Ngundu-Tanganda RoadTriangleBetween 70.5-71.5 km peg9 km before Triangle
36A9P4Mutare-Masvingo RoadDewureBetween 147–148 km peg22 km from Birchenough Bridge

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