{"id":4229,"date":"2026-01-05T04:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T04:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/4229\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T04:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T04:57:15","slug":"survival-skills-navigating-zimbabwes-treacherous-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/4229\/","title":{"rendered":"Survival Skills: Navigating Zimbabwe&#8217;s Treacherous Roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>In Zimbabwe, roads have turned into battlegrounds, placing survival above skill in driving lessons. Tafara Muvhevhi, a veteran driving instructor, emphasizes that today&#8217;s lessons focus on navigating chaos rather than merely passing exams.<\/p>\n<p>Once renowned for pristine driving conditions, Zimbabwe&#8217;s road safety has plummeted since the 2000s. Reports detail lethal roads plagued by crashes every 15 minutes, with five fatalities daily, exacerbated by weakened enforcement and economic decline.<\/p>\n<p>The crisis parallels a wider African pattern, with fatalities surging 17% from 2010 to 2021. While authorities introduce measures like body cameras, fundamental change is needed to curb alarming human error rates contributing to accidents.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; In Zimbabwe, roads have turned into battlegrounds, placing survival above skill in driving lessons. Tafara Muvhevhi, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[63,3387,3382,3385,3384,3388,3352,3383,3386,106],"class_list":{"0":"post-4229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-zimbabwe","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-dangerous-roads","10":"tag-driving-instructor","11":"tag-driving-lessons","12":"tag-road-accidents","13":"tag-road-fatalities","14":"tag-road-safety","15":"tag-traffic-chaos","16":"tag-traffic-enforcement","17":"tag-zimbabwe"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}