Zvishavane District

This article is about the district. For the town, see Zvishavane.
Midlands Districts
Shava means Eland in ChiShona. The eland colour is called shava in ChiShona.
Reddish Hills of Mashava at King Mine
Shava is the name of the eland in ChiShona. The colour of these common elands is lighter than that of the giant elend above; so the colour is shavane or Shavani hence Zvishavane.

Zvishavane District is one of the eight districts in Midlands Province of Zimbabwe. 85,035 people live in Zvishavane rural and 59,714 live in Zvishavane town (2022 census).[1]

It has Mberengwa District to the south and Shurugwi District to the north.

Its capital is Zvishavane town.

  1. ^ "Zimbabwe: Administrative Division (Provinces and Districts) - Population Statistics, Charts and Map". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 2024-02-17.