Gokwe

Gokwe, usually called Gokwe Centre, is a rural town in the Midlands province of Zimbabwe and the main service centre of the wider Gokwe region. It began as a government station that housed the district commissioner, police, hospital and veterinary services, and it was also the base for tsetse fly control against sleeping sickness. Gokwe was proclaimed a growth point in 1982 and was declared a town by the state in July 2006, skipping the rural service centre stage because the Kwekwe to Gokwe highway improved its links to the rest of the country. It is governed by a town council under the Urban Councils Act, which divided it into six wards for the 2008 elections. The 2022 census counted 33,075 people living in 9,189 households.