MALL FOR MAPUTO

THE South African-based McCormick Property Development Group committed $23-million on Wednesday to building Mozambique’s biggest shopping mall yet in the industrial suburb of Matola near Maputo city. The 21500m Matola Plaza will boast between 67 and 85 shops, the country’s first ”mall style” entertainment complex and cinema and a 40-bed private clinic. Developers will break ground in April and pledge that the complex will open for business by April 2000.