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 and the Ngondoma River. There are no sizable rivers on the Gokwe side across the highway until after the town. Luveve-Donjane Road branches right, passes through Tiger Reef gold mine and stretches 48.3 km, a 42 minutes drive to Mushangi Shopping Center in Donjane joining the Somalala-Sidakeni Road there. This is the shortest route from Kwekwe to Zhombe East, yet it is the slowest, as it is all gravel with a number of undone small bridges. However, there is one big bridge across the Sesombe River. Luveve-Nkayi Road ia a paved road officially called P8 Highway. It branches left at