Motorists in Masvingo face more than a month of diversions from today as the government shuts part of Bradburn Street to upgrade the Harare–Beitbridge highway. The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development said in a notice on 14 June that the stretch from Josiah Tongogara to Chimusana will be closed from 15 June to 24 […]
Motorists in Masvingo face more than a month of diversions from today as the government shuts part of Bradburn Street to upgrade the Harare–Beitbridge highway. The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development said in a notice on 14 June that the stretch from Josiah Tongogara to Chimusana will be closed from 15 June to 24 July 2026 to allow widening and rehabilitation of the road between the 281 km and 292 km pegs — including the Masvingo Bypass. The bypass starts at the Tongogara–Bradburn junction, runs past Chimusana and Charumbira Road, and links back to the Masvingo–Beitbridge Road near Masvingo Polytechnic. Works will be done in phases. First, contractors will close the northbound lane and turn the southbound lane into a temporary two-way road. Once that side is finished, traffic will switch over while the southbound lane is rebuilt. All side roads into Bradburn will be shut during the works — Mineral Road, Timber Road and Industrial Road. For city-bound traffic, the ministry says drivers should leave Bradburn at Tongogara and take either Robert Mugabe Road via Ring Road to rejoin Bradburn further north, or Leopold Takawira Street via Hallet Street or Mucheke Road into the city centre. Southbound traffic will stay open in the first phase. Drivers are being urged to plan for delays, obey temporary signs, and give way to construction trucks — particularly those branded Masimba Holdings Limited, the contractor on site. The closure is part of the government’s “kilometre by kilometre” rehabilitation of the Harare–Beitbridge corridor, Zimbabwe’s main north–south trade route.
