Gweru District Gweru District Gweru District is a district in the Midlands Province of Zimbabwe. Gweru District gets its name from Ikwelo River now Gweru River which has the city as its source and primary drainage basin. The name Gweru is a further corruption of the name Gwelo which was a distortion of the original name "Ikwelo" given by the earliest isiNdebele speakers in the late 19th century. Ikwelo was the district because it was not a spot name but rather a name given to a place along the length of the river in question as written by Colonel Carbutt, of Southern
Kwekwe-Gokwe Highway Manzamunyama and Navata are very slippery during rainy seasons. Zhombe-Silobela Road branches left at Zhombe Joel and it is a 39.5 km long gravel road. It passes through Gwenzi, Mavuli, Hwida, Ntabeni then joins Luveve-Silobela Road (Kwekwe-Nkai Road) 8.7 km short of Gweru River bridge and 24 km short of Crossroads Growth Point. Loreto Mission is just less than 1 km from Gweru River Bridge. From Zhombe Joel this road has unclear routes to Exchange Irrigation Scheme but local people use various secondary roads to the scheme. branches left at Fafi shopping center, before Ngondoma river and it feeds Ntombankala