Rusape

Rusape is a town in Makoni District, Manicaland Province, in northeastern Zimbabwe, about 170 kilometres by road southeast of Harare on the main highway between Harare and Mutare. Its name comes from rusapwe, meaning may it never dry, a reference to the ever flowing Rusape River beside which the British South Africa Company set up a post in 1894. The town lies at about 1,410 metres above sea level and draws its piped water from Rusape Dam. It is a large, sprawling town of low and high density suburbs, among them the high density township of Vengere and the lakeside suburb of Tsanzaguru. The 2012 census recorded 30,316 people and the 2022 census counted 37,906.