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
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