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Harare Cracks Down On Partitioned Buildings Passing As Shopping Malls In CBD

1 day agoFri, 14 Mar 2025 14:56:16 GMT
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Harare Cracks Down On Partitioned Buildings Passing As Shopping Malls In CBD

Harare Mayor, Councillor Jacob Mafume, says businesses operating in partitioned shops, masquerading as shopping malls to avoid paying individual shop licences, will now be required to pay separate business licences.

Mayor Mafume clarified that true shopping malls, such as Sam Levy’s Village and Westgate Mall, are large commercial complexes with unified ownership structures and shared facilities, distinguishing them from businesses operating in partitioned spaces in the Central Business District. He said:

The issue of what they call malls, frankly speaking, does not fit the definition of what we understand as malls, either locally or internationally.

Someone just partitions their shop, names it after their grandmother, and suddenly claims it’s a mall.

When you subdivide your shop and put in multiple smaller shops within it, you have not necessarily created a mall.

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You have simply created several businesses that should be paying licences to the city as individual shops.

The idea of calling it a mall is simply an attempt to evade paying for each business. There is no common ownership; various tenants are operating separately, and they must be licensed accordingly.

In the old days, we used to have a one-size-fits-all licence. A supermarket and a small shop would pay the same fee.

But in the new budget, we have created clusters based on floor size. Each shop must now pay a fee that matches its actual business space.

Mafume said these unregulated malls on city planning and cleanliness, saying the mushrooming of partitioned shops has led to increased litter, pollution, and congestion in commercial areas.

More: The Herald

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25 Comments

African Observer · 6 hours ago
pandangoona pakanzi the herald ndabva ndati oh shame
Anonymous · 13 hours ago
To increase cleaniliness in our former sunshine city. City fathers must make sure that if someone partitions his or her building and increase number of people. The person must put oublic bins and organise private disposal of these bins. For tax purposes every owner of these building must provide the list of all business and make sure they pay cuty levies and zimra. Failure to that city fathers and zimra must garnish the owner. For those operating on veranders owners of these buikdings must also provide and protect their space by leaving them.there city fathers and zimra must assume they are paying rent to the owners therefore the owner of the building must account for them. With that move our city will have order.
Tiktok · 18 hours ago
Guys nyaya hombe ndeyekuti Zim haina mabasa zvachose chose ndofunga everyone is aware of this,As people are flocking from rural districts or rural homes,population increases,we have foreigners from DRC,MOZAMBIQUE,SOMALIA, RWANDA and other countries population also increases then inhouse population since people are giving births leading to unemployment.Dzosai maIndustries amakavhara vanhu vaite vashoma mumaStreets and **** inoitawo shoma,Apa hatimboda kuvandirana vanhu havana zvekuita kunze kwekutotengesa muCBD nemumaRoadsides kushaya mabasa uye hakuna kwekuenda hurumende apa chokwadi chiripo tsvagai chaita kuti musoro uteme.
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Anonymous · 20 hours ago
It's a result of a ****ed up, corrupt, failed government of thieves I mean ****ing thieves
Anonymous · 2 hours ago
Problem is this, you jus say what you say yet you don't understand how the whole economy works, we cannot wake up here and say tatove neIndustry here are jobs, and if they are there are you qualified enough my guy
Dogstyle · 20 hours ago
It's a clear result of a failed, corrupt, government,
guwa · 20 hours ago
hamusi tombosiya kana cent ,pease makungo torera vanhu Mari hamunyare imbwa dzevanhu,ukatoisa maearphones radio license ,yowe ,tikwanireiwo
Anonymous · 1 day ago
These People are Escaping From Tongogara Refugees Camp and Messing Our Zimbabwe Culture and Crime .Gov and Immigration authorities are To Blame for This Mess Even Tuma MuShika it's all Foreigners and Killing in Roads Accidents
Anonymous · 1 day ago
ZvakaNaka TinoZvidawo so let's Start Being Clean and tidy it's Good for Health and Peaceful Mind Too. We Need Order in Zimbabwe kwete Zveku Mombe. And After All Cleanly Ness is Next to God kwete Marara Everywhere Chiyi
Anonymous · 1 day ago
Zimbabwe Law's Should meet International Standards To Avoid City Being Like Dumbsites We Need Clean Citizenship system not Zveku Mombe.We need to Attractive City for Tourist and Crime Free. RUBBISH Dambing Fined as Like America Even Paper s put Them in Bins or your Beg Not Dambing Everything else Anyway Look at Places Like Dubai /UK and America Why Zimbabwe They are Clean City. Taka Jayidzwa T**** That should Change
Anonymous · 1 day ago
Any Sub Divisions Should Comply with Laws or The Owners be Fined Heavily
Anonymous · 1 day ago
If Owner sublets Then Oner Should Pay all Sub Divions Easy cause it's his Property Being Sublletted Hence Owners Should have to Pay on Top of TheirPremisses Any Subletion Plus VAT and Also ****nces Them Accordingly or Shut the Mall
progress · 1 day ago
hassa machinda Aya Aya mitemo vaiwanzaa paspace dikiki ndivoo vavakuukanya manje mitemo havazotarise kumasure chaarota nachooo revise yo constitution brf frst
Bob Many · 1 day ago
Ma vendor opinda ma1 ma shops opindwa hard fut. Dzimba kuna Harare Drive vakuda kupaza. Gore rino tinochiona chet
Sir African. · 1 day ago
It can be argued in a court of law
Dindingwe · 1 day ago
People are following in your footsteps Jack, just like what you did with your house in Belvedere. Gakanje usati vana vako usafambe beside iwe uchiziva kuti ndiwo maberekerwo enyu!
Roland · 1 day ago
True ( we cannot replicate ) just give a second look at our real malls High Glen , Chitungwiza even that Westgate they are an eyesore . let them call those partitioned buildings Malls coz that reflects the true Zimbabwe Economy.
Dok25 · 1 day ago
The other countries the mayor is talking about have formal economies and we cannot replicate what is done there into our informal economy where people are hustling for survival.
Lizwe · 1 day ago
well said
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Another Generation · 1 day ago
anonymous...why is he still a mayor whilst he was in city of harare scandals ?

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