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
Kwekwe-Gokwe Highway Kwekwe-Gokwe Highway the road feeds Gokwe-East, Mabura, Empress Mine and Sidakeni. From the A5 the Gokwe-Empress Road branches westwards south of Kadoma at A5 Empress Mine Turnoff" a place popularly called "Mtarimanja" and officially Muzvezve. Muzvezve is a river across the A5 a few kilometres north of this turn-off. The Muzvezve-Chemagora Road goes for as a link to the R847 Highway which is the Kwekwe-Gokwe Highway or the P11. It passes through Venice Mine and Donain before reaching the Munyati River Bridge (Empress). It enters Kwekwe-Gokwe Highway at Chemagora, popularly known as Empress Turnoff. Sembeula Road branches left just before