Kwekwe District subdivisions Kwekwe Municipality (Kwekwe City Council) and Redcliff Municipality (Redcliff Town Council). The third subdivision is the caretaker of the rural part of Kwekwe District, Zibagwe Rural District Council usually called Kwekwe Rural District Council. There are 60 rural district councils from Zimbabwe's 8 non-metropolitan provinces. Midlands Province has 8 Rural District Councils: The District Administrator (DA) is the chief senior civil servant overseeing the administration of the district. He is an ex-officio in both the urban and rural councils and he exerts considerable power in both. There are 5 constituencies wholly in Kwekwe District, Redcliff, Mbizo, Kwekwe Central, Silobela
Kwekwe District Council and Kwekwe City Council. This part is run by a Rural District Council, the rural equivalent of an urban council formed by the Local Government according to Chapter 29.13 of the Rural District Councils Act. The rural part of Kwekwe District is governed by Zibagwe Rural District Council. Kwekwe, then spelt "Que Que", was called Sebakwe before the assumption of the name Que Que hence Zibagwe Rural for Kwekwe Rural. Kwekwe District has a total of 67 wards: Kwekwe Municipality has 15 wards; Redcliff Municipality has 9 wards yet Redcliff Constituency has 13 wards; Zibagwe RDC has a total