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Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation: Consumer services Broadcasting & entertainment Harare: 1963 State-owned media S A Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority: Utilities Conventional electricity Harare - Power S A Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company: Basic materials Iron & steel Kwekwe: 1940 [11] Steel, now NewZim P A Zimbabwe flyafrica.com: Consumer ...
The Gaika Mine, now known as the Gaika Gold Fields, is situated in what was Chicago Farm just about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) south of Kwekwe CBD.The Gaika Mine was the earliest mine developed in 1894, then Globe and Phoenix in 1895-1900, the Eldorado in 1905, the Antelope in 1908, the Cam and Motor Mine in 1909, the Shamva Mine in 1909-1910, and numerous others during the period 1895-1911.
] Amaveni's population is made up of people from different professional backgrounds: civil servants, workers from the heavy industries of Zimbabwe Iron and Smelting Company (ZIMASCO), Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (ZISCO [now NewZim Steel]), Lancashire Steel, Sable Chemicals, Haggie Rand Zimbabwe, and National Breweries, among other ...
By 1919 Kwekwe was still known as Kwekwe Village and its grave yard was known as Kwekwe Village Cemetery. [12] Had it not been that Fort Kwekwe was a government establishment the place called Kwekwe today would have remained Sebakwe because Sebakwe River is only about 8.5 km away while Kwekwe River is about 14.5 km away. The name of the nearest ...
Located in Kwekwe, Sable Chemical Industries Limited is Zimbabwe's sole manufacturer of nitrogen-based fertilizer, ammonium nitrate (AN). The company was incorporated in 1965 and started operations in 1969 using ammonia, a key raw material in the fertilizer making process, which at that time was imported through Sasol, South Africa.
In 1965, the company employed up to 2,900 people. In 1980, after Independence, it was renamed the Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (ZISCO). By 1990 it employed about 5,500 people and indirect employment was around 50,000. [2] It used to export to Europe and Asia as well as neighbouring African countries. [3]
The fields are watered by canal water ferried by an electric-engine pump from Senkwasi Dam. There are also several hand-driven boreholes along the west end of the scheme. The irrigation scheme has become not so viable of late because of the regular load shedding by the national electric power authority, ZESA.
This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (May 2009) Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) The following is a partial list of dams in Zimbabwe. List of dams (reservoirs) Name (alt.) Nearest local Province Impounds Year completed (commissioned) Capacity (MegaL) Map ...