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
Towns in Karachi Union Councils. Each of the eighteen towns is governed by an elected Town Council and led by an elected Town Nazim (Mayor) assisted by a number of officials. Towns in Karachi Karachi in Sindh, Pakistan was a federation of eighteen autonomous towns from 2001 and dissolved in 2011 as the latest stage of a developing system of local government. The eighteen towns are varied in population and population density with three towns including extensive rural areas which lie within the city-district boundaries because the urban area of Karachi occupies 1,800 km² out of the city-district's 3,528 km². The history of