17°49′46″S 31°01′59″E / 17.829466°S 31.032936°E / -17.829466; 31.032936 (A5 Highway Harare Show Ground) However the A5 begins at the right T-Junction with Mutley Bend (road) where Samora Machel Avenue ends.
The Ngezi-Selous sealed highway was then constructed at a cost of to US$17 million to link the Ngezi Platinum Group metals mine and the Selous Metallurgical Complex which are about 78 km apart.
The highway was the biggest and fastest road construction contract ever undertaken in Zimbabwe.
When travelling to Kariba from any place around Kadoma, Kwekwe, Gweru, Zvishavane or even Bulawayo, this is the shortest and fastest link road.
However the road has numerous potholes especially on the section after Munyati River Bridge to Sidakeni Shopping Center.
The rate of unemployment in Zimbabwe is so high and the so-called self-help projects have multiplied, some of them a nuisance to motorists.
Waypoints are massed with vendors and pirate taxies touts who swarm any vehicle that stops by.
The area between Munyati River has seen the wrath of illegal miners and EMA fears the highway might be affected.
Wide road shoulders might deter the illegal miners from coming to close to the highway from underground.
In recent years right in the city of Kwekwe illegal gold miners dug and emerged from underneath a classroom at Globe and Phoenix Primary School.