The Joe Gqabi District Municipality (; ) is one of the seven districts of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The seat is Barkly East. As of 2011, the majority of its 349,768 inhabitants spoke isiXhosa.
Before 1 February 2010, it was known as the Ukhahlamba District Municipality; its name was changed in recognition of Joe Gqabi (1929–1981), an African National Congress member who was a journalist for the New Age, a member of the Umkhonto we Sizwe, and one of the Pretoria Twelve.
The district contains the following local municipalities:
Joe Gqabi is surrounded by the following districts:
The following statistics are from the 2011 census:
Election results for Joe Gqabi (prev. Ukhahlamba) in the South African general election, 2004.