Zimbabwe diamonds

By Eddie Cross I am not sure of the details but around the year 2000, a geological exploration team found alluvial diamonds at Marange in Zimbabwe. They cut trenches and did further exploration for a number of years, until in 2006,…
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Despite the general consensus that the country did not benefit from the previous mining regime that existed in the Chiadzwa diamond fields before the formation of the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC), events on the ground…
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Powerful military and political elites and security forces have controlled and secretly exploited Zimbabwe’s once promising diamond sector, while concealing the scale of the loss to its people, a new report from Global Witness reveals.
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The diamond merger that took over gem extraction in Marange, the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) has commenced operations and sales.
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By Eddie Cross Looking back over the past sixteen years since we started this fight with Zanu PF, there are three examples of their total failure to behave as a responsible governing Party that standout for me. The first was…
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By Professor Welshman Ncube During the tenure of the Inclusive Government of February 2009 to July 2013, President Robert Mugabe was repeatedly informed on the high-level shenanigans that were part of a stealth and deliberate conspiracy…
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By Darlington F Muyambwa Barely two weeks after the global conference on the Extractive Industry’s Transparency Initiative (EITI) from February 24-25 in Lima, Peru, President Robert Mugabe publicly stated that an estimated $15 billion of…
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PRESS STATEMENT: Recent revelations by President Robert Mugabe to the effect that at least US$15 billion worth of diamonds from Marange/Chiadzwa has not been accounted for are very astounding and startling, to say the least. Mugabe…
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