[citation needed] Cotton is grown in the area and there was some development of related industries before 1990.

This location lies approximately 141 kilometres (88 mi), by road, southwest of Harare, the national capital and largest city in the country.

[6] The city of Kadoma was known as Gatooma until after independence, on 18 April 1982, when new names for 32 places were gazetted.

[8][9] Gatooma was founded in the 1890s as a mining camp, and constituted under a village management board in 1907.

[11] The Specks Hotel was opened in 1907, and Jameson High School started the same year when Amelia Fitt, wife of the first mayor of Kadoma, started to give classes to the town children in her house.

[15] and other players at the club included Joseph Zulu and Gibson Sibanda (both later politicians), Ephert Lungu, Robert Godoka, Wonder Phiri, Stanley Nyika, goalkeeper Raphael Phiri,[12] David Mwanza, Rainos Maphumo, Charles Chirwa,[15] Byron Manuel, and others.