About sixty small traders inside a shared retail complex in Bulawayo stopped trading when the complex itself closed. Each of those traders is a business rather than a single job, and most of them employ one or two other people, so the real number of people affected is unknown. The closure matters because shared complexes of this kind are how many Zimbabweans enter formal trading. When one closes, the ladder into formal work is pulled away from a whole group of traders at once.

Sixty micro enterprises are reported to have stopped trading after the complex closed. The number of people who lost work is not stated, so no count is recorded.

The count of sixty refers to businesses and not to workers. It must never be read as a job loss figure. The source does not give the exact closing date, so the first of the month is used.

A workplace stops operating, is placed on care and maintenance, or resumes operating after a period of closure.

Evidence required: The name of the site and the operator, the date operations stopped or resumed, and a statement from the operator, a landlord, a local authority or an established publication.