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Harare, Zimbabwe<\/em> — For years, Zimbabwe has relied heavily on private contractors and external suppliers to provide asphalt for its road construction and rehabilitation programmes, a model that often resulted in high costs, supply delays and uneven project implementation.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, the government signalled a strategic shift in that approach with the commissioning of the Skyline Asphalt Processing Plant, a move officials say will strengthen state capacity to produce asphalt locally and accelerate…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Harare, Zimbabwe — For years, Zimbabwe has relied heavily on private contractors and external suppliers to provide asphalt for its road construction and rehabilitation programmes, a model that often resulted in high costs, supply delays and uneven project implementation. On Tuesday, the government signalled a strategic shift in that approach with the commissioning of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,52931,8774,15972,6427,257,8489,5990,5758,254,53753,4686,421],"class_list":["post-224895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-asphalt","tag-commissions","tag-dependence","tag-government","tag-news","tag-plant","tag-private","tag-shifts","tag-south-africa-today","tag-statebacked","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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