Zimbabwe: Rent Board - a Toothless Bulldog?

12 December 2013
analysis

In our neighbourhoods, especially in the urban areas, there is brisk business in letting out immovable properties, be they houses or office buildings. The arrangement is that one becomes a lessor (landlord/ landlady) and the other party becomes a lessee (lodger/ tenant). At some point, this union has to come to an end.

In most instances, the divorce tends to be tart, words are exchanged, movable properties are thrown outside and others are locked outside while electricity is switched off.

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