Government is returning the shopping complex on Maryvale
Farm, Mazowe, to businessman and politician Dr James Makamba.
Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural
Resettlement Perrance Shiri yesterday confirmed that the shopping centre on the
farm, the Blue Ridge Spar or Sweet Valley supermarket, and two adjacent shops
had been returned to Dr Makamba.
The process of demarcating boundaries and paperwork was
still in progress, but Dr Makamba can now utilise the shopping centre. Farmers
surrounding the complex will be updated.
During land reform, Dr Makamba was allocated the farm
before he secured a loan of about $14 billion from CBZ focusing on earning
foreign currency through horticulture.
Dr Makamba built from scratch, a road facing the shopping
complex where Blue Ridge Spar was the main anchor store.
The complex drew customers from the extreme north of
Harare, travellers on the highway between Harare and Mazowe, and residents in
the southern part of the rural district.
However, when the complex was closed following Dr Makamba’s
fallout with then President Mugabe, about 450 employees were also affected.
In 2017, Dr Makamba returned to Zimbabwe and said he had
answered the call by President Mnangagwa for Zimbabweans to return, help
rebuild the economy and make the country great again. Herald
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