Redcliff, Zimbabwe

Redcliffe, also Redcliff, with 34,000 inhabitants ( 2006), the much smaller neighboring town of Kwekwe in the Midlands Province and is 1,306 m high in the Great Dyke in Zimbabwe. The deposits of iron ore here are huge. It is a city of iron and steel industry is the second largest production site of Black Africa. ZISCO ( Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company) and BIMCO ( Buchwa Iron Mining Company ) are the two largest employers in the city.

The current situation, however, is fatal. The steel production of 450,000 t in 2000 to 271 812 t in 2002 fell - with continued downward trend. Unemployment is now extremely high, ZISCO is about to cease funding. The infrastructure is rotten and no longer works in parts. In the densely populated suburbs patrols as in those of Kwekwe and Gweru the military. Meanwhile, the government of China and Germany contacted to get production back on track.