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March - May 2021 International Edition 07 ISSN: 2683-6572 / Complimentary edition INTERVIEW HERITAGE FUMBA towN “ TEN YEARS How to SAVE MANAGING NO TAX” A LANDMARK WITH styLE PAGE 02 | NEWS PAGE 03 | ZANZIBAR PAGE 06 | HOME The Fumba Times OUR (HI)STORY THE FUMBA TIMES, founded in 2019, is Zanzibar’s first English-lan- HRESA guage local lifestyle newspaper with K universal appeal. Our main focus is , BA , S Fumba Town, the growing seaside town close to the capital – hence our S/CP name. With hands-on features about CK green living, culture and tourism, but also with a free exchange of views, we are your link to Zanzibar, Africa and beyond. For this year’s Rama- dan (mid-April to mid-May), falling into the timespan of this issue, we’d like to wish all our readers celebrat- ing it a heartfelt Ramadan Kareem! PHOTOS (5): KEEGAN CHE KEEGAN (5): PHOTOS Zanzibar’s future: A diverse community along the seashore is Fumba Town by CPS (left) a more uniform luxury estate with a corniche at Fumba Uptown Living by Bakhresa (right) Global thinkers ONE PERSON, ONE OPINION FindTwo out all about new Fu excitingMBA seaside developmentsS just- outsideO NEZanzibar City IDEA of Zanzibar City, and our neighbour refreshing breeze drifts in from the Fumba Uptown at the southern tip of the sea. A few kilometres away, customers It’s all happening on the Fumba Fumba peninsula - and what unites these happily bargain at Fumba Town’s peninsula: two major real two new urban island delights? Well, it popular weekend market. There is estate developments creating starts with tastes, and probably ends with already remarkable residential life in the your financial possibilities (see box) green estate, where about 500 of a total Lela Muhamed Mussa, 39, Minister of modern living space with While both projects aim to “satisfy the 3000 units in a variety of building styles Tourism of Zanzibar, sharply condemned holiday flats and permanent huge demand in real estate in Zanzibar” and budget options have been sold and inappropriate clothing of holidaymakers: homes. Ever wondered which (Dietzold), promise ”high yields in partly occupied – from low-cost studio “The government is not happy with the is which? And what’s the right investment” (Bakhressa), support local apartments to elegant villas. situation. Despite the need for tourism we one to make your dreams industries and create employment, one In Uptown Living, on the other must avoid the breakdown of our social might - just for the sake of distinction - hand, prestigious, walled-in individual values.“ She introduced fines of $700 - come true? Just read on. properties and a 10-floor apartment $10,000 for violations. A rising number tower attract future buyers. “We only of visitors had been seen recently stroll- oth aspiring seaside communities, Beautiful sell houses ready to deliver”, explains Competitors and friends: ing through town, scantily clad in bikini started in 2015/16, fascinate locals living director Bakhressa, “the furbishing developers Sebastian Dietzold(left) and bathing shorts. as well as a growing number of is still in progress and we have not and Saeed A. Bakhressa Binternational visitors and investors. “Up in Zanzibar even started marketing”. Fumba Town to now we have buyers from 57 nations”, Travel trends 2021 says Sebastian Dietzold, CEO of CPS, identify the uptown version as slightly the developer of Fumba Town. “We have more exquisite and conventional, and THE TWO FACES OF FUMBA SAFE & FLEXIBLE more in common than separates us”, Fumba Town as the greener and more emphasises Saeed A. Bakhressa, project experimental entity. Fumba Town: Fumba Uptown: director of Fumba Uptown Living (FUL) Is it environment versus luxury, then? ER 1 150 acres 1 180 acres developed by the Azam Bakhresa group That would be putting it too simply. PP A of companies. “It’s all about trust and Fumba Town indeed metamorphosed 2 a town for all budgets… 2 …versus high-end living T the vision to open up Zanzibar”, the from barren coral rock land into a lush developers, both in their forties and both tropical paradise in just three years by 3 from $22,900 to $390,000 3 from $125,000 to $500,000 PHOTO: PHOTO: engineers, agree. virtue of permaculture landscaping, but Classic furnishing in Uptown 4 21 different types of homes 4 11 apartment & villa types So, what is the difference between the uptown competition can also pride “The Nest”: new hotel in Paje Fumba Town, 20 minutes drive south itself of its own water and electricity by CPS, on the contrary, is selling 5 climate-friendly houses 5 15 km asphalt road network plants supplying up to 20 megawatts of off-plan; buyers pay in instalments. What do tourists in 2021 wish for their power and three million litres of drinking The excitement of new beginnings is 6 94% waste recycling 6 seafront corniche & beach travels, if they travel at all? The world water. “Besides, both towns face the same tangible in both spots. “I couldn’t believe largest tourism company TUI recently 7 eco-playground & school in place 7 amusement park challenges”, Bakhressa adds. A dramatic my eyes seeing entire cities coming surveyed trends. Highest in demand are shortage of sand delayed building up in the middle of nowhere”, a visitor 8 natural tree gullys as drainage 8 underground drainage channels “safety and flexibility”, easy cancella- progress. Another problem: “Turkey or remarked. And both developers seem tion options, nature holidays, islands Mauritius grant immediate residency to agree: The two tropical towns may 9 permaculture paradise 9 fullly fitted kitchens (!), camping, workations (working hol- to home buyers, in Zanzibar we are still eventually form one attractive suburb for idays) and apartment hotels. “People 10 great sunsets! 10 great sunsets! pressing for that”, Bakhressa notes. the capital - with diverse neighbourhoods are eager to travel again”, said chair- Taking a ride on a carousel at Uptown’s but the unifying promise of a better life www.fumba.town [email protected] man Marek Andryszak and forecasted: Cute playgrounds in Fumba Town amusement park on the corniche, a in Zanzibar! “Prices will go up.“ ADVERTISEMENT TESTING MADE EASIER New Covid-19 test centres in Zanzibar – online results within 72 hours 4 Covid-19 testing centres in Zanzibar have been authorised for travellers. 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Updated 1 March 2021, subject to change NEWS Page 2 – Edition 07, March - May 2021 Page 3 – Edition 07, March - May 2021 ZANZIBAR S VE, CP VE, I H C R STARTING ALL A ONOMY, ONOMY, Ec ovER AGAIN STRY OF OF STRY I By staff writer N MI After decades of neglect the House of Wonders partly collapsed on Christmas Day PHOTOS (4): (4): PHOTOS STA 2020. Oman and Zanzibar I AT have vowed to resurrect it. B N THE FUMBA TIMES spoke BI RO to experts and artists about the , chances to save the iconic palace. ER PP EMAX TA D L; he naval bombardment during ER, PP an attempted palace coup in HOTE A I 1896 couldn’t kill it, but decades T UR Tof decay did. The House of Wonders, OM, C Zanzibar’s most famous landmark, is Z (5): ES. badly damaged since its partial collapse K Old and new: A top-modern port on Christmas Day which killed two HOTOS (left), financed by Oman, is planned construction workers and injured others. P for Zanzibar, raising hopes that The former sultan’s palace, built in ARAHMAR handling delays and irregularities 1883 by Oman’s Sultan Seyyid Bargash S “LET’S BRING THE will become a thing of the past. Tra- for ceremonial purposes, is considered ditional (photo above) and industrial one of the most important historic mon- fishing are encouraged uments of East Africa. While the debris was sorted and wooden supporting pillars I (4): PHOTOS were mounted to save what is left of the OLD GLORY BACK” grand building, experts reckon that at Sketch of the House of Wonder from the book “Sea level” by Sarah Markes, available at Memories. The palace after its partial collapse (above); in its heyday, with marble floors and a grand staircase ExclusiveEXCLUSIVE interview: INTERVIEW Economy Minister Mudrik Soraga speaks out on goodies for investors least 25 per cent of the structure is gone.