Kotwa | A Town On The HIGHWAY | Mudzi, Zimbabwe

Along the Harare Nyamapanda Highway is a small town known as Kotwa. Kotwa is located in the eastern part of Zimbabwe and is 222km from Harare and about 20km from Nyamapanda Border. It is the capital of Mudzi District and it serves as both an administrative and commercial centre of this district. It started as a small business centre for the surrounding villages such as Dengwa and Meza. Later on, it expanded under the Growth Point Policy introduced in the early 80s soon after independence. It covers an area of 4075 square kilometres. Kotwa lies in the heartland of the Toko-Tonga area, generally considered to be a Shona people. It’s population is made up mainly of the Toko people with an estimated population of 135 378.
Kotwa has a number of lodges and guest houses and of course one 3 star hotel, The Pumpkin Hotel. There is also the Mudzi Resource Centre which offers accommodation, and is a venue for conferences, weddings and other events.
Being a town in the Zambezi Escarpment, it is very hot in summer and suffers from Malaria. It also has an aerodrome, called Kotwa Aerodrome which was mostly used by the Zimbabwe Defence Forces to launch attacks against RENAMO dissidents during the Mozambique Civil War.
Kotwa has one hospital, Kotwa District Hospital, which is central government owned and serves the whole of Mudzi District and one clinic owned by the Mudzi Rural District Council. It terms of education, it has Nyamakuyo and Kotwa Government Primary, and Kotwa Government High Schools. Kotwa also has a tertiary institution which goes by the name, Kotwa Vocational Training Centre.

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