Chitungwizaruns on a handful of strong industries. If you’re job-hunting or weighing a move, here’s where the opportunities (and the big-name employers) are.
Top industries & employers
Commuting into Harare
Harare's employers, across every sector
This is the honest first entry. Chitungwiza's working population is largely employed in Harare — offices, factories, retail, domestic and construction work — and the city functions as a residential district of the capital rather than as a labour market of its own.
Informal trade and services
Chikwanha, Huruyadzo and Makoni markets; roadside vendors; home workshops
The largest visible economy in Chitungwiza and the one that absorbs most people who cannot commute. Markets here undercut Harare's on produce and secondhand goods, and supply traders in the capital.
Public services
Chitungwiza Central Hospital, Chitungwiza Municipality, schools and clinics
The most reliable formal employment in the city. The central hospital in particular is a substantial employer of nurses, technicians and administrators.
Stone sculpture and the arts
Chitungwiza Arts Centre and its resident sculptors
One of the country's most significant concentrations of Shona stone sculptors works here, carving and selling on site. It is a genuine export trade and the thing Chitungwiza is best known for outside Zimbabwe.
Transport
Kombi operators, mushika-shika drivers, cross-border haulage on the Masvingo road
The commuter fleet is itself a large employer — drivers, conductors, rank marshals and mechanics — and the Harare–Masvingo–Beitbridge corridor runs past the city.
Light manufacturing and construction
Small workshops, brickmaking, building trades
Modest and mostly informal. Chitungwiza's growth is residential, and building it is the closest thing the city has to an industry of its own.
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