Junction Gate

Junction Gate is a small community in Manicaland province, Zimbabwe, about 6 kilometres west of the Mozambique border and roughly 20 kilometres east of Chipinge. It has a primary school next to a Tanganda Tea Estate farm called Petronella, known locally as Mabheka. Around 1999 Tanganda Tea Estates built a tea processing factory called Tingamira beside the school, together with a dam fed by two small rivers, the Chipita and the Pondabuwe. The company then launched a bottled still water brand named after the dam, so the settlement is tied closely to tea estate activity near the eastern border.