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Driving instructors teach students to dodge danger on Zimbabwe roads
Zimbabwe driving instructors now emphasize survival skills due to daily crashes causing five deaths and 38 injuries, amid weak enforcement and rising vehicle numbers, officials say.
- Recently, Tafara Muvhevhi, a Zimbabwean driving instructor in Harare, shifted from teaching the highway code to survival tactics, prioritizing whether students will survive deadly roads.
- Authorities say 94% of road accidents in Zimbabwe’s 15 million population stem from human error, with a crash every 15 minutes killing five and injuring 38 daily.
- On the roads, the contradictions are stark as minibus taxi drivers cram 12 passengers including trunks and fare collectors hang off moving vehicles, while road safety declined since the 2000s due to worsening maintenance and enforcement worsened by surging used-vehicle imports.
- Police in Zimbabwe have recently acquired body cameras and breathalyzers and are pushing for a review of the driver licensing system, docking points, and training revamps, police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said.
- The WHO regional report and U.N. Economic Commission for Africa show Africa’s 26.6 deaths per 100,000 rate leads global tolls, with about 300,000 annual deaths hitting vulnerable road users.
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Driving instructors teach students to dodge danger on Zimbabwe roads
Zimbabwe’s driving lessons have shifted from test prep to survival. When Tafara Muvhevhi started teaching driving 16 years ago in capital Harare, lessons stuck to the highway code.
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