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The route has a length of 10,228 km (6,355 mi) and links Cairo in Egypt to Cape Town in South Africa. The British Empire had long proposed a road through the Cape to Cairo Red Line of British colonies. The road was variously known as the Cape to Cairo Road, Pan-African Highway, or, in sub-Saharan Africa, the Great North Road.
The road carries between 1,000 and 5,000 vehicles per day, with the heavier flows in the proximity of Harare. It is therefore proper to rehabilitate this road. The Harare-Beitbridge road is part of the trunk road network of Zimbabwe, which is a part of the North-South Corridor – one of the major arterial links in the regional road network.
The road runs in a southern direction from Harare to Beitbridge Border Post (between Zimbabwe and South Africa), covering a total distance of 571 km. The Harare–Beitbridge road is part of the Regional Trunk Road Network (RTRN Link Nr 25). On the South African it joins the N1 Highway which runs the whole length of South Africa to Cape Town. [10]
The Southern African Development Community Regional Trunk Road Network or SADC RTRN is a trans nation road network across Southern Africa. [1] The projects in Africa being developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), [2] [3] the African Development Bank (ADB), and the African Union in conjunction with the Southern African Development Community.
In the 1970s Zambia had one of the best highway networks in sub-Saharan Africa. In 1991 it was estimated by the National Road Fund Agency (NRFA) that 80 percent of the road network had deteriorated and out of total road assets valued at US$2.3 billion, US$400 million had been lost due to neglected maintenance.
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Newsroom Afrika is a South African 24-hour digital satellite television news channel broadcast across Africa on DStv. [1] [2] [3] It is one of two channels on the platform that is 100% black-owned, and 50% female-owned. [4] The channel comes after MultiChoice ended their contract with the now defunct and controversial Afro Worldview. [5]
The T1 or Lusaka–Livingstone Road is the main highway of the Southern Province of Zambia. [1] It begins 55 kilometres south of the city of Lusaka (10 kilometres south of Kafue) and heads south-west to the principal tourist destination, Victoria Falls in Livingstone, via Mazabuka, Monze, Choma and Kalomo, measuring approximately 430 kilometres (267 mi).