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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 suburb, as is everything in Zimbabwe's main towns and cities, was formally a black only area, reserved for the poor and African population that streamed to the town in search of jobs. Together with Amaveni , Mbizo supplied the much needed labour to the gold mines scattered across the growing town.
It is located at Empress Mine Township, Zimbabwe 92 km north-west of Kwekwe and 70 km south-west of Kadoma. The school was owned by Empress Mine until 1982 when the mine closed shop and handed over the school to the local community. Mopani offers educational services from Grade 1 to Grade 7 for both boys and girls.
Kwekwe (/ ˈ k w ɛ k w ɛ / KWEH-kweh), formerly known as Que Que, [2] is a city in the Midlands province in central Zimbabwe.The city has a population of 119,863 within the city limits, as of the 2022 census, making it the 7th-largest city in Zimbabwe and the second-most populous city in the Midlands, behind Gweru.
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.
The mining industry of Zimbabwe is highly diversified, with close to 40 different minerals. The predominant minerals mined by the industry include platinum , chrome, gold , coal , and diamonds . The country boasts the second-largest platinum deposit and high-grade chromium ores in the world, with approximately 2.8 billion tons of platinum group ...