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
Telecommunications in Zimbabwe links, open-wire lines, radiotelephone communication stations, fixed wireless local loop installations, and a substantial mobile cellular network; Internet connection is available in most major towns that includes Harare,Gweru Bulawayo,Mutare through fiber optic and other remote parts through satellite communication International: country code - 263; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat; two international digital gateway exchanges (in Harare and Gweru) (2010) Mobile cellular: 9.2 million (2011) Broadcast stations: AM 7, FM 4 (plus 17 repeater stations), shortwave 1. Acts as the primary communication for largely rural population. 2012 saw the launch of two independent stations ZiFM and Star FM. As of