A7 road (Zimbabwe)
road in Zimbabwe
A7 Road is a national road in Zimbabwe that connects Bulawayo with the Plumtree Border Post with Botswana. It is popularly known as the Bulawayo-Plumtree Road. The A7 is part of Trans-Africa Highway 4 (Cairo–Cape Town Highway). It is one of the two routes that form the R2 Route, which connects the Plumtree Border with Harare.
Background
The A7 Road picks up from Botswana's A1 Road at Plumtree border post and runs eastwards for 110 km to Bulawayo. Driving from Bulawayo to South Africa via Botswana the A7 Road crosses the border into Botswana joining the A1 road which continues south through Francistown, then Gaborone to Ramatlabama at the border with South Africa. On the South African side the road continues to Mafikeng as the N18 road.
The highway was rehabilitated in 2015 to meet world class standards in a project called the Plumtree-Bulawayo-Harare-Mutare Highway.
The A7 Road is also part of a regional highway connecting Botswana and Harare called the R2 Highway.
Operations
The A7 Road's number one purpose is to link all Zimbabwe with Botswana and western South Africa.
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