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Gweru, originally known as Gwelo, is a city in central Zimbabwe. It is on the centre of Midlands Province . Originally an area known to the Ndebele as "The Steep Place" because of the Gweru River 's high banks , in 1894 it became the site of a military outpost established by Leander Starr Jameson . [ 2 ]
The border was established by the Pretoria Convention of 1881 and restated by the London Convention of 1884 which defined the boundaries of the South African Republic (the Transvaal Republic). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The South African Republic subsequently became the Transvaal Colony and then part of the Union of South Africa , while north of the Limpopo ...
Gweru District, district number three of the 61 in Zimbabwe has Gweru City the 3rd largest city in Zimbabwe as its capital. Gweru City is also Midlands provincial capital. It is located 164 km northeast of Bulawayo and 275 km south-west-south of Harare via Mvuma ( A17 Highway) or 278 km via Kwekwe ( A5 Highway). .
Geography of Zimbabwe; Continent: Africa: ... and similarly drops southwards to the Limpopo valley and the border with South Africa. ... for Gweru (1961–1990) ...
Limpopo Railway, also called Gweru-Maputo railway, [1] is a railway that connects the city of Maputo, Mozambique, to the city from Somabhula, in Zimbabwe. It is 900 km long, in a 1067 mm gauge . [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
A railway also passes through this border post, side by side with the road, and splits into a line to Bulawayo and a line to Gweru via Rutenga. [citation needed] Three railway lines meet at Beitbridge: the South African Spoornet line to Polokwane, the National Railways of Zimbabwe line to Gweru via Rutenga and the Beitbridge Bulawayo Railway.
Zimbabwe, [c] officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east. The capital and largest city is Harare, and the second largest is Bulawayo.
South Africa–Zimbabwe border This page was last edited on 20 March 2013, at 19:17 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...