A sustainable, modernised, prosperous and highly empowered community by 2030.
To provide, maintain, regulate and facilitate social services & infrastructure through good corporate governance.
The district is experiencing population immigration mainly from Masvingo and Mashonaland provinces.
The bulk of the population are communal farmers and informal employment remains pronounced.
Livestock remains one of the pillar resources for our population as this provides a source of income and also draught power.
Wards 3,4,6,7,8,9,17 co-exist with animals, mainly elephants, buffalos & hyenas & these have nurtured a tendency of destroying crops & livestock
Densely populated settlements are in wards 9,19,15,11,23. The highest concentrations of people are found in the northern communal parts of the district (wards 9) pointing to the need for resettlement.
Highest proportion of people 0-19 years of age
The major rivers are; Sengwa river which forms the boundary with Jiri & Sai area to the west, Sesame which stretches from Gokwe South to Gokwe North, Munyati river bordering Gokwe South to Gokwe North, Munyati river bordering Gokwe South with Sanyati. Other notable major features in the district includes the Gokwe Center gulllies, Mavhirivhi mountain.
Rural: 30 582
Urban: 24 054
District Total: 330 036
Households
Rural: 67194
Urban: 6534
Life expectancy is between 30-50 years.
Shona dialects like Chishangwe (mainly spoken in the Njelele, Nemangwe, Sai areas), Shona (spoken in the Jiri, Masuka, Mutendi areas), Ndebele (Jahana, Ndhlalambi areas), Tonga (Mkoka area).
The Ndebele and Tonga languages command lower frequency distribution than the Shona language
Gokwe South Rural District Council is a lower tier of the government which operates in their rural area. As a local authority, Gokwe South Rural District Council establishment was derived from the Rural District Councils Act Chapter (29:13) of 1988 which amalgamated District Councils & Rural Council to form Rural District Councils to enhance grassroots development. Section 8 of the RDC Act stipulates the establishment and naming of councils and division of areas into wards
Subject to section 8, whenever the President considers it desirable he may, by proclamation in the gazette, do any one or more of the following:-
(a) establish a rural district council for any district with effect from a date specified in the proclamation, which date shall be at least sixty days after the publication of the proclamation;
(b) assign a name to any council;
(c) divide a council area into any number of wards.
We seek to provide, maintain, regulate and facilitate social services and infrastructure through good corporate governance
JABULANI GUTE
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
CONTACT NUMBER +26377237426
JOSEPH MADONGWE
EXECUTIVE OFFICER ADMINISTRATION AND HUMANÂ RESOURCEÂ
CONTACT NUMBERÂ Â 0777523133
MARTIN TAKARUVAÂ
EXECUTIVE OFFICER PLANNING
CONTACT NUMBER +263777507210
OFIOUSÂ MASHINDIÂ
EXECUTIVE OFFICER FINANCE
CONTACT NUMBERÂ +263772938447
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INNOCENT DARIKAI
COUNCILÂ ENGINEER
CONTACT NUMBERÂ
0774178859
EPPIPHANIA MUDZANIRE
EXECUTIVE OFFICER INTERNAL AUDITOR
CONTACT NUMBER
+263779475572
