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HARARE – About $45 million in diamond revenue was on Friday seized by a South African company in Belgium after it had been granted an interim order against President Robert Mugabe’s cash-strapped government over a cancelled platinum concession, the Daily News can reveal.
On the 27th of July 2011, I asked the Minister of Mines to make a statement to Parliament on the production of diamonds at Marange for the past five years and the value of that production in 2009.
Does Obert Mpofu think that his personal accumulation of wealth, assets and the creation of a massive business empire in Zimbabwe is going unnoticed? This is an African State, there are no secrets writes MP Eddie Cross.
The discovery of massive diamond deposits in Zimbabwe has led to hundreds of media reports exploring the abuse of human rights and grandscale corruption. It can be difficult to keep up to date with events as they unfold, or to tease out the key story as it unfolds.
Zimbabwe’s Minister of Mines and Mining Development, Obert Mpofu was described as a ‘crook’ and a ‘thief’ by Zanu PF MP Edward Chindori-Chininga who was formerly the Minister of Mines.
AFRICAN Consolidated Resources (ACR) shareholder and legal counsel Jonathan Samkange said threats to cancel the company’s mining licences by Mines minister Obert Mpofu this week were of no legal effect.
The Zimbabwean High Court has overturned a judgment giving mining rights at the Marange fields to British firm African Consolidated Resources.
Andrew Cranswick the CEO of African Consolidated Resources (ACR) has denied state media reports that the High Court approved the sale of diamonds at the centre of an ownership dispute between his company and the government. On Tuesday the Herald claimed the court had sanctioned the sale of 129 000 carats of diamonds mined from […]
The Zimbabwe High Court has approved the sale of diamonds from a field plagued by human rights abuses, as Harare moved to defy the Kimberley Process, reports state-run media. The sale of 300, 000 carats of diamonds from the eastern Marange fields was blocked last year by the international regulator after it found that Zimbabwe […]
By Clara Smith HARARE – Mines Minister Obert Mpofu has declared that London-based mining firm African Consolidated Resources (ACR), “controlled by one white manâ€, will never mine diamonds at Marange diamond field in eastern Zimbabwe as long as he is in charge of the ministry. Mpofu was speaking to reporters at Parliament on Wednesday just […]