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 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