Gweru 183 km from Masvingo, 471 km from Beitbridge, and 275 km from Harare. Road names used are by destination only, for example the Harare-Gweru Road. There are only mainroads, no highways or freeways. Brendan Ashby, Olympic swimmer × Maxwell Dube, Footballer × Edmore Makozho,Socialite Parliament Research Department, Gweru Urban Constituency Profile, 'Parliament of Zimbabwe', Published: 2011, Retrieved: 28 Apr 2014 Gweru Gweru (named Gwelo until 1982) is a city in central Zimbabwe. Located near the geographical centre of the country, it is the capital of Midlands Province. Originally an area known to the indigenous Ndebele as "The Steep Place" because
Kwekwe-Gokwe Highway the same place Luveve-Donjane Road branches right. Luveve-Nkayi Road is also known as Kwekwe-Nkayi Road, but the road actually begins from the Kwekwe-Gokwe Highway at Luveve crossroads well outside Kwekwe. The road has one big bridge across Gweru River near Loreto Mission before reaching Crossroads District Service Center. The road feeds Silobela and Nkayi, and from Nkayi, it continues as P9 Road to join the Victoria Falls Bulawayo Highway. Somalala–Sidakeni Road, (R84-103) popularly known as Zhombe East Road, is a 46 km long gravel road, connecting Kwekwe-Gokwe Highway and the Kadoma-Gokwe-via-Empress Road. It branches right from the Kwekwe-Gokwe Highway at