By Rex Mphisa
THE Masvingo – Beitbridge Road had so much in store for Zimbabweans this week when it became meaty!
All the cuts, not yet sliced though, lay strewn across the newly upgraded road. Some drivers turn into a race track.
Fillets, T-bone steak porterhouse, short ribs, brisket, oxtails, and rump steaks (all not yet cut though) were strewn all over in their hind and fore-quarters form.
This was a result of bad overtaking, we heard, as a side tipper with double trailers tried to speed and overtake a construction vehicle. Why the rush!
Men herded the beasts in the vela before Surrey Meats slaughtered them at their Rutenga abattoir where they were loaded for Harare.
And men were again forced to look after the carcasses from those with tongues that love salt and their speedy hands, which take before being given.
Crashed piceces of metal and the smell of oils in the drizzles were unpleasant.
Some drivers sadly love to play in the rain and risk other road users’ lives.
The Munenzva Bus incident on Monday, November 16, 2025, at around 1720 hours, just outside Rutenga at the 155-kilometre peg, where four people died and 14 others injured made sad reading.
No experience with wet roads and tyres?
And surely those doing our roads are so careless! How do uou explain that a heavy truck is expected to fly across a river?
Is it because the Ministry of Transport cares little for motorists and will let such situations go unpunished?
The detours are poorly done and without signage.
Someone will pay thousands in repairs of their trucks because road builders care little?
Somebody help! I hope the insurance of the truck finds the road maker!
Along the Victoria Falls road, things were muddy, traffic swimming in detours.
The games are far from over as the rainy season has just begun.
Watch this space