Kwekwe Company (ZISCO), the country's largest steelworks. It also hosts the Zimbabwe Iron and Smelting Company (ZIMASCO), the largest ferrochrome producer, and one of the biggest power generating plants, ZESA-Munyati, in Munyati, a suburb of Kwekwe. Kwekwe is Zimbabwe's richest city in terms of minerals. Kwekwe town was founded in 1898 as a gold mining town, and hosts Zimbabwe's National Mining Museum. The town remains an industrial centre of the country. The name stems from the Zulu word "isikwekwe", which means "scurvy", "mange" or "scab". Popular belief states that Kwekwe is named after the croaking noise made by the nearby river's
A5 road (Zimbabwe) is the shortest link route from Harare to Gokwe through to Binga. However the road has numerous potholes especially on the section after Munyati River Bridge to Sidakeni Shopping Center. In rainy seasons the Munyati River Bridge on this road may be flooded. This road branches to the right (west) about north of Kwekwe. After Gokwe this road eventually takes you to Binga. There are several roads that connect with A5 in the City of Gweru that include: Source Map: [AA Road Map 1985] The A5Highway passes across a few major river along its route. The rate of unemployment in