Kwekwe member of parliament (MP) for Kwekwe Central constituency was Emmerson Mnangagwa until his defeat in the elections of 2000. Since then, Blessing Chebundo of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has represented the district in the Parliament of Zimbabwe. Kwekwe politics is mainly dominated by MDC. As with other Zimbabwean towns run by opposition parties, Kwekwe has seen a number of politically motivated incidents in which people have been killed and arrested. Kwekwe Kwekwe ( ), known until 1983 as Que Que, is a city in central Zimbabwe. It is located in Kwekwe District, in Midlands Province, in the
Kwekwe-Gokwe Highway the same place Luveve-Donjane Road branches right. Luveve-Nkayi Road is also known as Kwekwe-Nkayi Road, but the road actually begins from the Kwekwe-Gokwe Highway at Luveve crossroads well outside Kwekwe. The road has one big bridge across Gweru River near Loreto Mission before reaching Crossroads District Service Center. The road feeds Silobela and Nkayi, and from Nkayi, it continues as P9 Road to join the Victoria Falls Bulawayo Highway. Somalala–Sidakeni Road, (R84-103) popularly known as Zhombe East Road, is a 46 km long gravel road, connecting Kwekwe-Gokwe Highway and the Kadoma-Gokwe-via-Empress Road. It branches right from the Kwekwe-Gokwe Highway at