Kwekwe the winter season, and warm dry weather from August to mid November. Winters are characterised mainly by their cold nights, with an average minimum temperature of , and are the sunniest time of the year. Kwekwe has always been a festive and social centre with a mild political atmosphere. It is a multi ethnic city. In and around the city one is assured to come across Shona, Ndebele, Karanga, Chewa, Venda, Tonga and Nambya speaking people. Association Football and cricket are the main sports in the city, just as in the rest of the country. Kwekwe hosts one of Zimbabwe's
New towns in the United Kingdom design is inappropriate to the 21st Century. Their infrastructure is ageing at the same rate and many have social and economic problems. Many are small local authorities which do not have the capacity to resolve their problems. Their attempts to manage the towns are complicated by the role played by English Partnerships which still has major landholdings and other outstanding interests. The new towns are no longer new and many of the quickly built houses have reached the end of their design life. The masterplans dictated low density development with large amounts of open space, and housing segregated from jobs,