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| Title: | From Dirt Tracks to Modern Highways: Towards a History of Roads and Road Transportation in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1890 to World War II |
| Author: | Mlambo, Alois S. |
| Year: | 1994 |
| Periodical: | Zambezia (ISSN 0379-0622) |
| Volume: | 21 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pages: | 147-166 |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | biblio. refs. |
| Geographic terms: | Zimbabwe Southern Africa |
| Subjects: | economic history road transport road construction Development and Technology History and Exploration colonialism Transportation roads history |
| External link: | https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/AJA03790622_120 |
| Abstract: | This paper traces the history of roads and the road traffic sector in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) from the turn of the 19th century, when the country had no roads to speak of, until the Second World War, when the basic foundations for the present road system were laid. It argues that during the period of the British South Africa Company (BSAC), up to 1923, little was done to establish good roads. The Company was more concerned with promoting railway construction and either had no interest in building roads or was apprehensive of the likely competition to railways that would result from a good road network. It was only when Rhodesia attained responsible government status that serious attention was given to the development of roads in the country. The 1930s witnessed the replacement of old dirt roads with macadamized road surfaces as increasing traffic made dirt roads unsuitable. The paper also examines the road regulations passed by the government throughout the period under study and briefly analyses the type of labour used in the construction of roads in the country. Notes, ref., sum. |
