Kadoma, Zimbabwe
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Kadoma is a large town in Zimbabwe in the Mashonaland West province, 140km south-west of Harare on the main road to Bulawayo. It was known as Gatooma until 1982. The town was founded in the 1890s as a mining camp, and constituted a Village management board in 1907. In 1917 the Gatooma municipality was created; it was named after the nearby kraal of Chief Katuma.
The Specks Hotel in the town was opened in 1907, and Jameson High School started the same year when Mrs Amelia Fitt, wife of the first mayor of Kadoma started to give classes to the town children in her house. A public electricity supply was introduced in Kadoma in 1922. The Grand Hotel opened in 1925 and had a sprung floor for dancing, the first such floor in Zimbabwe.
The town is at the centre of a mining area which includes Gold, Copper, Nickel. There is cotton farming around, and the town has some associated industry. The David Whithead textile manufacturing company was opened in 1952.
Kadoma is at a height of 1,162m. It's population according to the 1992 census was 67,750. The 2002 population was estimated at 72,000.
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