Gweru District Gweru District Gweru District is a district in the Midlands Province of Zimbabwe. Gweru District gets its name from Ikwelo River now Gweru River which has the city as its source and primary drainage basin. The name Gweru is a further corruption of the name Gwelo which was a distortion of the original name "Ikwelo" given by the earliest isiNdebele speakers in the late 19th century. Ikwelo was the district because it was not a spot name but rather a name given to a place along the length of the river in question as written by Colonel Carbutt, of Southern
Kwekwe-Gokwe Highway and the Ngondoma River. There are no sizable rivers on the Gokwe side across the highway until after the town. Luveve-Donjane Road branches right, passes through Tiger Reef gold mine and stretches 48.3 km, a 42 minutes drive to Mushangi Shopping Center in Donjane joining the Somalala-Sidakeni Road there. This is the shortest route from Kwekwe to Zhombe East, yet it is the slowest, as it is all gravel with a number of undone small bridges. However, there is one big bridge across the Sesombe River. Luveve-Nkayi Road ia a paved road officially called P8 Highway. It branches left at