Kwekwe to the geographical centre of the country, Kwekwe is also strategically located within the Midlands metropolitan area. Kwekwe, together with Gweru, Munyati, Kadoma and Redcliff form a single customer base for local commercial enterprises. As elsewhere in Zimbabwe, a high proportion of the population depends on the informal sector, possibly more than half of the population. Many self-employed miners carry out illegal digging work just north of the city, panning for gold, one of the most lucrative sources of income. Other residents engage in less strenuous work as cobblers, carpenters, TV and radio repairmen, and vendors selling anything from onions
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