The Gokwe Region consists of the land in the area around

Gokwe centre Gokwe Centre is a rural town in the Midlands province in Zimbabwe. The town is usually referred to as "Gokwe Centre" because the larger region is called Gokwe. Gokwe is seen in popular Zimbabwean culture and media as a place that is backwards o ...

that was formerly under the control of the Shangwe people, a

Shona Shona often refers to: * Shona people, a Southern African people ** Shona language, a Bantu language spoken by Shona people today ** Shona languages, a wider group of languages defined in the early 20th century ** Kingdom of Zimbabwe, a Shona stat ...

-speaking group, which lay in the northern part of the

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of northwestern

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, and is now broken up into

Gokwe South District Gokwe South District is one of the eight administrative districts of the Midlands Province of Zimbabwe. The district administrative seat is located in Gokwe Town also known as Gokwe Centre and the District Administrator is the focal person in ter ...

and

Gokwe North District Gokwe North District is the northern of two administrative districts in the Gokwe region of the Midlands province of Zimbabwe file:Zimbabwe, relief map.jpg, upright=1.22, Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe ...

. A number of other groups live in the area, including the Tonga, and Ndebele. Nkayi North District lies to the south. A researcher noted in 1998 "that the Nkayi-Gokwe border had hardened even before independence when Shona-speaking auxiliary forces had been recruited in Gokwe and used against Nkayi in explicitly tribal attacks".p. 179, Note 97, Alexander, Jocelyn (1998) "Dissident Perspectives on Zimbabwe's Post-Independence War" ''Africa: Journal of the International African Institute'' 68(2): pp. 151–182

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