The district is divided into two administrative entities under the Ministry of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing, which are Gokwe South Rural District Council and Gokwe Town Council.

Gokwe district is in the north-western part of Zimbabwe its average temperature vacillates at 40 degrees Celsius.

As a result of the introduction of Land Apportionment Act (LAA) of 1930 by the colonial masters, displacement of a number of people from different places to Gokwe began in the 1950s when the Native Land Husbandry Act (NLHA) was put across and marked the implementation of the LAA.

Gokwe South District has one senatorial constituency and is led by an elected member of the Senate or Upper House of the Zimbabwe Parliament.

[3] The district has 05 parliamentary constituencies and are led by an elected member of the Lower House or National Assembly Zimbabwe Parliament.

Chief Jahana and an estimated 8 000 of his people returned to Matabeleland South from Gokwe and were resettled at Gwamanyenga area.