Kwekwe-Gokwe Highway

Kwekwe-Gokwe Highway or the R84-7 Highway is an all-weather bitumen macadam highway in Zimbabwe running from Kwekwe to Gokwe passing through Zhombe. as a trunk road it is officially the P11 Highway

It is 141 kilometres (88 mi) from Kwekwe to Gokwe but the highway which branches off from the A5 (Harare-Bulawayo Highway) is 137 kilometres (85 mi), a 1-hour-50-minute drive on average.

The Zimbabwe National Road Administration (ZINARA), a government department under the Ministry of Transport, Communication and Infrastructural Development, oversees the highway.

As shown in the 1973 Automobile Association roads network, the Kwekwe–Gokwe road (then Que Que–Gokwe road) was a gravel one for about 99% of its present length. Only 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) of the old Gokwe road was tarred from Kwekwe.

The former gravel road was paved wide and tarred from 31 January 1986 to 31 March 1991.

The original plan was to construct a 7-metre-wide (23 ft) carriageway with two 1.5-metre (4.9 ft) shoulders. The road is however 6 metres (20 ft) with 2 0.5-metre (1.6 ft) shoulders constructed according to the revised plan of 1986.

From Kwekwe to Gokwe the road passes over various rivers with standard bridges. The rivers are Kwekwe River, Rhino River, Chimwamombe River, Sesombe River, Mandombe River, Somalala River, Ngazimbi River, Zhombe River, Gwenzi River, Sehozana River, Little Sehozana River, Ufafi River and the Ngondoma River. There are no sizable rivers on the Gokwe side across the highway until after the town.

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