Civil Protection (Declaration of State of Disaster Rural and Urban Areas of Zimbabwe) (Road Infrastructure Network) (Amendment) Notice, 2024 (No. 1)

The President has extended the state of disaster covering damage to the road infrastructure network in all rural and urban areas of Zimbabwe. That disaster was originally declared on 23 February 2021 by S.I. 47 of 2021.

This notice does one thing: it pushes the end date of S.I. 47 of 2021 out to 31 December 2026. Nothing else in the original declaration changes.

The practical effect is that the emergency procurement and works arrangements that hang off a declared state of disaster — the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme in particular — continue to have a legal footing for another two years.

The declaration is made under the proviso to section 27(2) of the Civil Protection Act, which is the power the President uses to extend a declaration beyond its original life.