While road infrastructure is usually funded through fiscal transfers, state funding as well as the raising of bonds, tolls are increasingly seen as a real solution to the infastructure crisis in Africa. Zambia earlier this year announced it was going to start constructing tollgates countrywide. High on the priority list are tolls between Chingola and Kitwe in the Copperbelt and Chingola and Solwezi. In Mozambique at least five new toll roads are being planned, according to the country’s public works ministry. These will be along the Matola/ Boane, Marracuene/ Lindela, Vanduzi/ Changara, Nampula/ Nacala and Monapo/Ilha de Moçambiques roads. In Zimbabwe more toll plazas are also expected over the next few years. “The user charge system is definitely growing,” said RFA spokesman Gavin Kelly.
