Gweru 183 km from Masvingo, 471 km from Beitbridge, and 275 km from Harare. Road names used are by destination only, for example the Harare-Gweru Road. There are only mainroads, no highways or freeways. Brendan Ashby, Olympic swimmer × Maxwell Dube, Footballer × Edmore Makozho,Socialite Parliament Research Department, Gweru Urban Constituency Profile, 'Parliament of Zimbabwe', Published: 2011, Retrieved: 28 Apr 2014 Gweru Gweru (named Gwelo until 1982) is a city in central Zimbabwe. Located near the geographical centre of the country, it is the capital of Midlands Province. Originally an area known to the indigenous Ndebele as "The Steep Place" because
Kwekwe-Gokwe Highway and Dendera areas up to St Judes School. Some like to call this road the St Judes Crescent because of its loop-road characteristics with Champeni-St Judes Road. It makes a good round about at St Judes School and returns to Kwekwe-Gokwe Highway as Champeni-St Judes Road. Muzvezve-Chemagora Road is the local name of the road called Gokwe-Empress Road. Still some like to describe it fully in calling it the Kadoma-Gokwe-via-Empress Road, but the road neither reaches Kadoma nor Gokwe in its own capacity. Some sections among villages along the length of this road call it the Venice-Chemagora Road. Venice is