Gokwe

Gokwe is a town in the province of Midlands in Zimbabwe . It has 23,906 inhabitants (2012 census) and is 1,300 meters above sea level.

history

Before 1950 the districts of Gokwe North and Gokwe South were very sparsely populated. Today there are over 400,000 inhabitants.

Many immigrants came from other parts of Zimbabwe, Malawi , Mozambique and Zambia , mainly because of the cotton grown here . In 1980 there were 15,000 cotton farmers in the area; in 1990 there were 50,000. The land is distributed, there have long been reports of land shortages. This results in semi- feudal structures that can not do without migrant work . 40 percent of immigrants are landless, 15 percent are elderly people from abroad who previously worked in the mines and now have a retirement home with a piece of land, 45 percent are displaced by the turmoil of civil war in Zimbabwe. This has resulted in such a massive income gap among blacks that political riots have broken out.

religion

Gokwe is the seat of the Gokwe diocese .

Web links

• Share dropping in Gokwe (English; PDF)

Coordinates: 18 ° 13 ′  S , 28 ° 56 ′  E