Former Police Commissioner General Dr Augustine Chihuri allegedly personalised the Zimbabwe Republic Police’s diamond mining company, Gye Nyame, in Marange as he “sorely” operated it, a Parliamentary Committee report has said. Read More...
At least six diamond companies that were ordered to shut down by government more than two years ago could make a comeback following the drafting of a new diamond policy. Read More...
By Kenneth Matimaire
Government has engaged Chinese investors for an out of court settlement after the latter referred the consolidation of the Chiadzwa diamond claims to the Constitutional Court (ConCourt), the Financial Gazette’s… Read More...
Diamonds certainly are not a girl’s best friend for the Marange villagers who once picked the gems from the flood plains of the Save and Odzi rivers in eastern Zimbabwe. Symbols of romance and luxury, diamonds have turned the lives of the… Read More...
The cash-strapped ruling ZANU PF government has issued an order to all diamond miners in the country to sell their gems through the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ). Read More...
A Dubai based company that facilitated a ‘test’ auction of Zimbabwe’s diamonds last month has finally started paying out the money earned from the sale, days after Zimbabwe’s government branded the test a failure. Read More...
Zimbabwe's diamond output from the Marange fields is expected to decline to 12 million carats this year, according to diamond analysts Rapaport. Read More...
Government has finally called time on mining firms that have been operating at the Marange diamonds fields in Manicaland, indicating that only one company will remain operating there. Read More...
Authorities in Zimbabwe are considering cutting the number of companies mining diamonds in Marange to one from the current seven so as to improve accountability and transparency. Read More...