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Synonyms for shurugwi or Related words with shurugwi
chipinge
marondera
zvishavane
gokwe
gweru
masvingo
chinhoyi
kwekwe
chegutu
chiredzi
nkayi
mutare
manicaland
shamva
gwanda
buhera
serowe
mutoko
kweneng
zvimba
murehwa
mahalapye
ruiru
solwezi
tonota
wajir
mkushi
bungoma
bindura
wedza
bikita
kitale
mudzi
outapi
kajiado
silobela
mvuma
isoka
gatundu
mwenezi
chimanimani
mwingi
chivhu
kitui
beitbridge
oshakati
vihiga
chitungwiza
mberengwa
machakos
Examples of "shurugwi"
Shurugwi
Town Council created in terms of the Zimbabwe Urban Councils Act, Chapter 29.15 administers 13 urban wards of
Shurugwi
North Constituency.
Tongogara Rural District Council is a local government organ administering
Shurugwi
District Rural District. There are two local government arms,
Shurugwi
Town Council created under the Zimbabwe Urban Councils Act, Chapter 29.15 administering
Shurugwi
, and Tongogara RDC created in terms of the Zimbabwe Rural District Councils Act, Chapter 29.13 overseeing the rural
Shurugwi
South District
Zvamavande Hospital is the referral centre for all other clinics in the region which often transfers patients to
Shurugwi
Hospital in
Shurugwi
.
Shurugwi
District is located in Midlands Province, southern Zimbabwe.
The road runs through the chrome mining town of
Shurugwi
to the asbestos famous Zvishavane mines.
It has Mberengwa District to the south and
Shurugwi
District to the north.
There are only three boarding schools in
Shurugwi
which are all in rural areas:
Guruguru Mountain is a solid dome-shaped volcanic rock in
Shurugwi
, Zimbabwe, near Pakame Mission. "Guruguru", its Shona name, and "Nkulunkulu", its Ndebele name, both mean "the biggest". It is by far the highest mountain in the
Shurugwi
Rural Areas and the Midlands Province of Zimbabwe.
Shurugwi
Rural Areas, also known as
Shurugwi
District, is a rural area around
Shurugwi
, Zimbabwe, mainly to the east, beginning from the town centre. The area between the town and the rural areas was mainly occupied by white commercial farmers. It is thought that at one time, these farms were owned by three families who were all related. The total area of these farms is approximately 60 km x 40 km similar to an area that was occupied by more than 4,000 African families. Most of the black families are subsistence farmers. Maize is generally grown by the majority.
Tongogara High School is a government-run high school in the rural areas of
Shurugwi
, Zimbabwe which offers classes up to A-level.
There are a number of schools in
Shurugwi
including Parkinson High, Chrome High,
Shurugwi
2, Batanai High School, Charles Wraith Primary, Railway block primary, Selukwe peak primary, Ironsides primary etc. Most of the better schools are found in
Shurugwi
rural area, such as Pakame Mission, one of the oldest schools in the country, a Methodist run mission school which is about 40 km by road on the South towards Zvishavane, very close Guruguru Mountain, a volcanic solid rock mountain in
Shurugwi
Rural Areas, Tongogara High School, a government operated boarding school 40 km to the East and Hanke Adventist High School, an SDA run school 10 km on the North of Tongogara. All these schools offer up to Advanced Level ("A-Level") education.
Most of the infrastructure in
Shurugwi
is very old. There is only one hotel in the town centre – the Grand Hotel which now operates as a bar.
Cha Cha Cha Township or simply known as Cha Cha Cha is a rural shopping centre in
Shurugwi
Rural Areas, 24 km South East of
Shurugwi
along the Beit Bridge road and from Gweru. The tarred road from 12 km before
Shurugwi
was constructed by a Chinese company called China-Gansui making it one of the best located rural shopping centres in Zimbabwe, therefore it can not be considered a remote area. It is relatively below standards with potholes and experienced sinking in some stages. It was heavily affected by the floods during the summer of 2000.
Zimasco operates ferrochrome mines in
Shurugwi
and Lalapanzi in Zimbabwe's Midlands Province. It also operates Zimbabwe's largest ferrochrome smelter in the Midlands town of Kwekwe.
Shurugwi
District is run by two local government arms, one for the rural district and the other for the urban district.
Shurugwi
has not escaped the scourge of the AIDS pandemic with many of its youthful people succumbing to the deadly virus.
Home to the late freedom fighter and Commander in Chief of Zanla forces, Josiah Magama Tongogara, other notable politicians include late Midland governor and resident minister Herbert S.M Mahlaba, Francis Nhema, the Minister of Tourism in the Mugabe cabinet and an MP of
Shurugwi
, first
Shurugwi
MP at independence and now Foreign Affairs Minister Dr Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, Dr Lucia Matibenga, and Emmerson Mnangagwa, by virtue of marriage to Tongogara's sister and coming from Chirumhanzu, and Dr Frank Mbengo.
There has been considerable resettlement, since 80% of the area around
Shurugwi
was owned by commercial farmers (generally Caucasians) who lost their farms because of the domestic land policy of President Mugabe. The people who claimed these farms (mostly black families without land) have struggled to survive due to lack of knowledge regarding good agricultural methods. Most of the beneficiaries are not originally from
Shurugwi
.
Shurugwi
also has some good rural primary schools such as Vungwi Primary School, Mpumangayi Secondary School and Tumba Primary Schools. Most of the graduates leave
Shurugwi
after primary/secondary education to pursue further education (usually A' Levels) in other towns as far as Harare. A relative minority ultimately end up studying at the University of Zimbabwe and other post independent universities in Zimbabwe or even at universities abroad.
Politically
Shurugwi
district saw a lot of fighting between Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army fighters and Rhodesian forces which led to significant deaths among the civilian population (1976–79). It has remained a predominantly ZANU-PF stronghold since independence.