Kwekwe District minerals including gold and iron ore. The largest steel manufacturing factory, Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (ZISCO), is located in the district in the town of Redcliff, near the city of Kwekwe, the district capital. The district contains many large and small mines and several large steel mills. The district is located in Zimbabwe's Highveld at an altitude of about , above sea level. It is located in the tropics but its high altitude modifies this to a warm temperate climate. The average annual temperature is . As with much of the Highveld, summers are long but not hot as
Kwekwe-Gokwe Highway just past the 50 km peg from Kwekwe. Zhombe East Road feeds Donjane, Bhamala, Totororo, and Sidakeni. There is a District Development Fund roads division deport at Mushangi Business Center in Donjane giving this road first preference on development. It has one bridge across Zhombe River near the 25 km peg heading north. Zhombe-Sidakeni Road (Road 84-102)branches right from the Kwekwe-Gokwe Road at southern outskirts of Zhombe Joel District Service Center. It is sometimes called Senkwasi Road. It is 33 km to the Kadoma-Gokwe-via-Empress Road. It feeds Gwesela West, Empress Mine, Sidakeni and Mabura. Some sections of the road in