Concession, Zimbabwe
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Concession is a small town in
Mashonaland Central Mashonaland Central is a province of Zimbabwe. It is divided into eight districts and has an area of 28,347 km2 and a population of 1,384,891 (2012 census), representing about 9.1% of the total Zimbabwe population. It is dominated by the S ...
province in
Zimbabwe file:Zimbabwe, relief map.jpg, upright=1.22, Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, 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, Bots ...
. It is located approximately 45 km from
Harare Harare ( ), formerly Salisbury, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of , a population of 1,849,600 as of the 2022 Zimbabwe census, 2022 census and an estimated 2,487,209 people in its metrop ...
and is along the road from
Mazowe Mazowe is a village in Mashonaland Central province in Zimbabwe. Notable people * John Bredenkamp * Fortune Chasi * Paul Tangi Mhova Mkondo *Auxillia Mnangagwa *Grace Mugabe *Joseph Msika Joseph Wilfred Msika (6 December 1923 – 4 August 20 ...
to
Mvurwi Mvurwi, originally known as Umvukwesi, is a town in Mashonaland Central province in Zimbabwe. Some of Mvurwi's schools include Holy Rosary Primary and Secondary School, Mvurwi Primary and High School and Umvukwesi Primary School which is one o ...
. Schools in the area include Dandamera
Primary School A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ...
, Amandas
Junior School A junior school is a type of school which provides primary education to children, often in the age range from 8 and 13, following attendance at an infant school, which covers the age range 5–7. Since both infant and junior schools provide pri ...
, Howick ridge Primary School, Cranham
Secondary School A secondary school, high school, or senior school, is an institution that provides secondary education. Some secondary schools provide both ''lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper secondary education'' (ages 14 to 18), i.e., b ...
and Kundayi Secondary School. For health purposes, the Concession hospital is in a good state to cater for the residents' immediate needs. Shopping areas set up at Dandamera and Amandas locations enable the residents to have access to everyday
commodities In economics, a commodity is an economic good, usually a resource, that specifically has full or substantial fungibility: that is, the market treats instances of the good as equivalent or nearly so with no regard to who produced them. Th ...
. Surrounding Concession are small and large farms that date back to the colonial period where the residents used to work and stay. Some of these farms still thrive in present day. There is a
Kingdom Hall A Kingdom Hall is a place of worship used by Jehovah's Witnesses. The term was first suggested in 1935 by Joseph Franklin Rutherford, then president of the Watch Tower Society, for a building in Hawaii. Rutherford's reasoning was that these ...
in Concession among other religious organisations. Local agricultural crops include
sugarcane Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, Perennial plant, perennial grass (in the genus ''Saccharum'', tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar Sugar industry, production. The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with stout, jointed, fib ...
. Horticultural crops grown in Concession include
roses A rose is either a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus ''Rosa'' (), in the family Rosaceae (), or the flower it bears. There are over three hundred species and tens of thousands of cultivars. They form a group of plants that can be e ...
.


References

Populated places in Mashonaland Central Province {{zimbabwe-geo-stub