On Monday I drove from Masvingo through Zvishavane to @CityofBulawayo and was profoundly shocked by the state of the road. Although no where near as bad as the Bulawayo to Victoria Falls road the amount it has deteriorated in just a year is appalling. The road is breaking up and this process has been exacerbated by the high number of mining trucks using much of it. The road needs urgent attention. I fear that if its degradation is not addressed quickly this rainy season will destroy what is left of the road. What appalls me as Mayor of Bulawayo is that Bulawayo is rapidly being cut off from the rest of Zimbabwe. The only decent roads left are the Plumtree and Gweru roads. Bulawayo is all but cut off from Victoria Falls, Beitbridge, Kezi, Nkayi, Tsholotsho and now Masvingo & Zvishavane. I implore the @MinistryofTID to address the situation urgently. The attached photos of the Zvishavane road taken by another motorist this week show some of the degradation.

When are you going to complete the road to Maphisa through the Matopos? A perfectly good road has been ruined because work stopped half way through once the Independence Day Celebration at Maphisa ended in April. Since then the road has been allowed to deteriorate and it is in far worse condition now than before work began on it.