After the census various clans of the Lemba migrated to different parts of the district including Thohoyandou in Venda, South Africa.

The Hadji clan in South Africa also uses Mbelengwa (with an 'L'from their local Venda language) to describe themselves.

Pfumbi, a variation of Karanga which is also close to Kalanga (Western Shona), has also been spoken in chief Muketi areas.

The Pfumbi quickly assimilated into the Karanga and most of them crossed Mwenezi river and settled in the Maranda and Shayamavhudzi areas in southern Masvingo.

It is thought that Pfumbi used to be more widespread than this in the past before the onset of Standard Shona as the compulsory vernacular language to be taught in schools.

One name which retains a trace of that past up to now is Mupandashango school, which in the Standard Shona form of today would be Mupandasango.

It is possible to meet people called Mashango (Masango) The use of words with velar fricatives, once represented by the letter "x", but now abandoned by orthography since the 1956 Samukange-led standardization of Shona, is another example that clearly and closely links the Karanga of Mberengwa with Kalanga with which it used to relate in places west of the current district as well as in the Gwanda West Nicholson area where the Jaunda version of Kalanga used to abound, and in Mwenezi.

Because of these new arrivals, Ndebele words are used freely in Mberengwa's Karanga, which is a natural process of borrowing and adaptation among closely settled and interacting peoples.

In Mashonaland where immigrant workers of Malawian origin were found in numbers, Zezuru (Central Shona) borrowed and adapted words like "tsano, kabanga, wondonga" etc.

The district is prone to droughts and high temperatures, but abundant in minerals like gold, iron ore, emeralds and asbestos.

The district has a number of missionary-run schools that run up to A-Level, notably Chegato and Musume, Masase and Mnene.

After 1980, the government constructed a number of rural day secondary schools also known as "Upper Tops" among them Guruva, Chovuragu, Bubwe, Zvamagwiro, Mabika, Maringambizi, Mbuya Nehanda, Bayayi, Murerezi, Chegute, Svita, Chizungu, Madenyika, Sviba, Makuva, Funye, Vuronga, Mposi, Ruzengwe, Chingoma, Vutsanana, Zvomukonde, Chemimwe, Vutika, Rengwe and Chomusenda.