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The Government of Zimbabwe in partnership with a pan-African housing development financier, Shelter Afrique are set to build 3 000 low-cost housing units in the country starting next year in a bid to mitigate the growing housing deficit in urban areas. Zimbabwe’s housing deficit currently stands

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Peri-urban settlement intensifies

March 11, 2015

author: Samuel Takawira

As one draws near Mungate and Chiroodza in Domboshava, a chain of astonishing houses appears. The houses replicate those special homes where memories are made. All day swimming, late night cookouts, sleepovers, cars in the driveway, bikes at the ready, sunny mornings filled with giggles, shady