Mabelreign

Mabelreign is a medium density surburb located in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe. There are a number of shopping amenities in the area including the Mabelreign Post Office, Mabelreign Police Station, Local Municipality Offices, a Local Library and a Local Clinic and with most of these located in an area of Mabelreign called the Stortford Parade in the centre of what’s commonly known as Mabelreign Shopping Centre.

Anchor Shops

Key supermarkets in the area include OK Supermarket Mabelreign as well as Spar Mabelreign, while Zuva Petroleum Mabelreign and PUMA Service Station Mabelreign make for the local suppliers of fuel and associate services.

Schools located in the area include Ellis Robins Boys High School, the Mabelreign Girls High School, Hallingbury Primary School, Haig Park Primary and Alfred Beit Primary School.

General Guide

Home rental fees in Mabelreign average between $400 – $800 USD per month while house purchase fees are anywhere between $80 000 – $160 000 USD per residential property. Areas falling under the general administrative area of Mabelreign include Haig Park, Sunridge, Ashdown Park, Meyrick Park, St. Andrews Park, Sentosa, Cotswold Hills, Greencroft and Bloomingdale. Neighbouring suburbs are Westgate, Marlborough, Avondale and Belvedere.

Historic Trivia

Mabelreign was named after Miss Mabel Mann, who was a fiancée of a surveyor named Swatheral in the then Salisbury of Rhodesia. Miss Mann laid claim to the land despite the fact that the title was already initially held by Edward Walter Kermode.

In 1892 Edward Walter Kermode claimed a farm and registered it as ‘Spring Valley Range’, later to become Mabelreign. He arrived in the country from the Isle of Man with the pioneer column as a personal servant of Archibald Calqhoun, the country’s first administrator.

Shortly after registering the farm, in 1895, Kermode returned to the Isle of Man where he married. It is after this that Miss Mabel Mann took proprietorship of the land.