The iron was fashioned into hoes, axes and other farming implements which people especially young man in need of a wife required.

Bus companies have stopped services the remote parts such as the areas of Chigondo, St Leoba, and Zana Resettlement.

However, daily services are run by several minibus operators to the city of Harare and Marondera, usually terminating at Murambinda.

The core business of Wedza was farming with its aligned service industries until disruptions to commercial agriculture and ranching in the area.

Areas along Watershed Road leading into Wedza from Harare were known for tobacco, maize and paprika production during the warm wet season (October to March).

The more southerly part of the district encompassing areas of Makarara, Zviyambe and leading into Dorowa were once a bastion of cotton farming and cattle ranching before 2000.

Upper Wedza which mainly consists of commercial farms, good rainfall, a Hospital and at least 3 good boarding schools namely Chemhanza, Mt St Marys Rusunzwe and St Annes Goto : The area was seized from the Mbire people by the original white settler farmers most of whom had been gold panners and fortune hunters tricked by Cecil John Rhodes and Rudd into settling as farmers under the promise of finding gold.

Failing to find the gold they had been promised they were encouraged to take whatever land they needed in what areas suited them and become farmers.

Through this exercise they drove away the local Mbire people into villages in lower Wedza where the rain is erratic and the soil significantly poor.