Harare Province a number of leading professional sports teams, and many historical sites and tourist attractions. Harare Province is named after the city of Harare, which in turn took its name from a black township in the city now known as Mbare. Originally, the name "Harare" applied to a village near the Harare Kopje led by the Shona chief Neharawa, whose name meant "he who does not sleep." The city of Harare, previously named Salisbury, was renamed on 18 April 1982, the second anniversary of Zimbabwean independence. When Harare and two nearby towns separated from Mashonaland Province in 1983, the new province
Chivhu Zimbabwean track athlete who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympic men's marathon. The controversial Grace Mugabe grew up in Chivhu too. Chivhu Chivhu (called Enkeldoorn until 1982) is a small town in Zimbabwe, with an estimated population of 10,000 in 2007. It is located south of Harare on the main road south to Masvingo and South Africa. Enkeldoorn, Chivhu's original name, is an Afrikaans name meaning "lone thorn". It refers to the tree "acacia robusta" and implies that a single specimen once grew there. The name was adopted in 1891 but was changed to Chivhu in 1982, on the second