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
Towns in Karachi Union Councils. Each of the eighteen towns is governed by an elected Town Council and led by an elected Town Nazim (Mayor) assisted by a number of officials. Towns in Karachi Karachi in Sindh, Pakistan was a federation of eighteen autonomous towns from 2001 and dissolved in 2011 as the latest stage of a developing system of local government. The eighteen towns are varied in population and population density with three towns including extensive rural areas which lie within the city-district boundaries because the urban area of Karachi occupies 1,800 km² out of the city-district's 3,528 km². The history of