Caesar

Caesar is a village in Mazowe West District in Mashonaland province, Zimbabwe, standing on the Great Dyke about 12 kilometres south of the Mutorashanga Pass. At the 1982 census the village had 2,674 inhabitants. It grew up around the Caesar Mine, a chromite mine, and the Great Dyke setting explains the mineral wealth of the district, since that long geological formation runs through the middle of the country and carries chromium deposits. The settlement is therefore a small mining village whose existence and name come from the mine rather than from any older trading or administrative function.