The government has outlined a series of measures aimed at curbing road traffic accidents following the tragic Seke Road incident, which claimed 17 lives last Tuesday.
Speaking at a post-Cabinet media briefing in Harare on Tuesday, the Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Jenfan Muswere, detailed the strategies being implemented to improve road safety across the country. Said Muwere:
So capacitation of the vehicle inspection is ongoing and the sourcing of the vehicle inspection department. Compliance to legislation is also one of the parameters that we are utilising.
Standardisation in terms of driving schools, the training of drivers, speed limits as a governance to traffic monitoring, the utilisation of traffic management, the utilisation of cameras for number plate recognition and facial recognition in order to curb over speeding and traffic offences.
The capacitation of the Zimbabwe Republic Police in order to apprehend and also deal with traffic offences. Legislation amendments that are taking place in order to ensure that our roads are safe.
As the minister (Felix Mhona) has also highlighted that the Civil Protection Unit is being capacitated in order to deal with the challenges that we might not have been able to deal with as part of an architecture under the hall of government approach.
According to statistics released by the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), the country recorded 28,159 road traffic accidents in the first six months of 2025—an increase from 25,968 during the same period last year.
Fatal crashes rose by 11%, from 784 to 870, while the number of road deaths increased by 4.9%, from 1,037 to 1,088.
Alarmingly, 94% of these accidents were attributed to human error, including speeding, tailgating, misjudgement, and illegal turns. In contrast, only 0.1% were blamed on poor road infrastructure.
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