{"id":226542,"date":"2026-03-10T13:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T11:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-fossil-contractors-corrects-shoddy-job-hands-over-redone-lorraine-drive\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T13:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T11:28:08","slug":"zimbabwe-fossil-contractors-corrects-shoddy-job-hands-over-redone-lorraine-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-fossil-contractors-corrects-shoddy-job-hands-over-redone-lorraine-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Fossil Contractors Corrects Shoddy Job, Hands Over Redone Lorraine Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">FOSSIL Contractors handed over a rehabilitated Lorraine Drive Road on Monday, opening it up for public use after correcting its shoddy work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The renowned construction company faced severe criticism for substandard road construction work three years ago, prompting the government to order the project to be redone at its own cost due to poor workmanship and failure to follow proper construction procedures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Masimba Construction Engineer Kudakwashe Maguta said the company had upgraded the 3,2km long&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603100219.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOSSIL Contractors handed over a rehabilitated Lorraine Drive Road on Monday, opening it up for public use after correcting its shoddy work. The renowned construction company faced severe criticism for substandard road construction work three years ago, prompting the government to order the project to be redone at its own cost due to poor workmanship [&hellip;]<\/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":[258,256,2141,53867,13716,32742,7888,9679,33085,257,53868,18449,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-226542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-contractors","tag-corrects","tag-drive","tag-fossil","tag-hands","tag-job","tag-lorraine","tag-news","tag-redone","tag-shoddy","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226542","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=226542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226542\/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=226542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}