Kwekwe to the geographical centre of the country, Kwekwe is also strategically located within the Midlands metropolitan area. Kwekwe, together with Gweru, Munyati, Kadoma and Redcliff form a single customer base for local commercial enterprises. As elsewhere in Zimbabwe, a high proportion of the population depends on the informal sector, possibly more than half of the population. Many self-employed miners carry out illegal digging work just north of the city, panning for gold, one of the most lucrative sources of income. Other residents engage in less strenuous work as cobblers, carpenters, TV and radio repairmen, and vendors selling anything from onions
Kwekwe-Gokwe Highway a mine only from its intersection with the Harare-Bulawayo Highway and Chemagora is the area where this road branches right from the Kwekwe-Gokwe Highway. Sidakeni is the main village in which the road passes through this side of the Munyati River. It is a 9-foot tarred road and it is the oldest tarred road in Kwekwe District (north). It branches off to the right from Kwekwe-Gokwe Road just past the 73 km and goes past Sidakeni and crosses the Munyati River to join the A5. This is the shortest route for traffic from Harare to Gokwe South District. From the