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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



Kgaolo ya Gokwe e nale lefatshe mo lefelong le le ageletsng bogare ja Gokwe le le neng le le laolwa ke batho ba puo ya Shangwe,[1] [2]ele setlhopha sa puo ya Seshona,ba ba nnang ko Bokone jo bo mo kgaolwaneng Midlands ko bokone bophirima ja Zimbabwe,e kgaogantswe ka kgaolwana ya Borwa ja Gokwe le kgaolwana ya Bokone ja Gokwe.Merafe e mengwe e nna koo,jaaka wa Tonga,le Ndebele.[3]



  1. pp. 287-288, Nyambara, Pius S. (2002) "Madheruka and Shangwe: Ethnic Identities and the Culture of Modernity in Gokwe, Northwestern Zimbabwe, 1963-79" The Journal of African History, 43(2): pp. 287–306
  2. p. 378, Worby, Eric (1994) "Maps, Names, and Ethnic Games: The Epistemology and Iconography of Colonial Power in Northwestern Zimbabwe" Journal of Southern African Studies 20(3): pp. 371–392
  3. p. 170, Alexander, Jocelyn (1998) "Dissident Perspectives on Zimbabwe's Post-Independence War" Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 68(2): pp. 151–182