update (29 April 2021): According to the Zambia's Daily Mail, Zambia's President Edgar Lungu and Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi are expected to commission Kazungula Bridge project on 10 May 2021.
update (28 April 2021): According to the Zambia's Daily Mail, the Kazungula bridge will be commissioned in May 2021.
update (08 April 2021): The Kazungula bridge is still not open to the public...
update (11 March 2021): The official opening of the Kazungula bridge is still a well-kept secret. Word on the ground has been that the bridge linking Zambia and Botswana by crossing the Zambezi at the small border town of Kazungula in Zambia's Southern Provice will be opened on 01 April 2021, but that is just a rumour. We'll keep you posted!
update (18 January 2021): The opening of the Kazungula Bridge has obviously been delayed. The reason why the bridge is still not open is actually not known. It could be the coronavirus pandemic, financial problems, the signing of legal intruments or simply problems related to the bilateral meetings between Botswana and Zambia that have delayed the opening of the bridge. We'll keep you posted!
Botswana's Minister of Transport and Communications, Mr Thulagano Segokgo, said at the final joint inspection of the Kazungula Bridge project with the Zambia's Minister of Housing and Infrastructure Development, Vincent Mwale, that the two countries are at an advanced stage of concluding legal instruments that will enable the Kazungula Bridge to be operational. The construction of package one of the project, which is the Kazungula Bridge itself, is 100% complete while the other two packages - the Botswana one-stop border post (99,97%) and its Zambian equivalent (99,99%) - are expected to be concluded by the end of October 2020. According to the Minister, the entire project had registered considerable progress which would lead to its commissioning by the heads of state of Botswana and Zambia in the near future.
The Kazungula Bridge is a 923-metre-long and 18.5-metre-wide road and rail bridge that connects Zambia and Botswana by crossing the Zambezi at the small border town of Kazungula in Zambia's Southern Provice. Construction of the Kazungula Bridge officially began on 12 October 2014. The bridge is being financed by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the African Development Bank (ADB).
PS.: Once the Kazungula Bridge is open to the public, travellers will be able to travel between Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe or Zambia) and the iconic Chobe National Park in Botswana in just about one +/- hour!
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