Anjin replaces workers with Zanu PF youths
The controversial Chinese diamond mining company, Anjin Investments, has reportedly replaced the workers it recently fired with card-carrying Zanu (PF) youths.
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The controversial Chinese diamond mining company, Anjin Investments, has reportedly replaced the workers it recently fired with card-carrying Zanu (PF) youths.
Tens of millions of dollars in diamond profits perhaps more are being secretly extracted from state-owned mines in eastern Zimbabwe, bypassing the nation’s treasury writes Maureen Gombakomba
A few days after Finance Minister Tendai Biti complained that Treasury had not received any money from diamond mining company Anjin Investments, a new report by pressure group Global Witness exposes its murky ownership structure.
MUTARE – More than a dozen soldiers and police officers are in trouble for eating food reserved for President Robert Mugabe during his visit to Manicaland province last week. The food was meant for Mugabe and close members of his entourage but the security details consumed it after hunger struck.
A crony of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, building a luxury mansion with an underground bunker in Ballito, KZN, has been ordered to stop work on the R200 million property. The house is rumoured to be a bolthole for Mugabe.
HARARE – Former ZBC TV news anchors, Supa Mandiwanzira and Jestina Mukoko on Monday engaged in a war of words over Danish aid. The former ZBC news anchors were supposed to share the platform during a conference in Harare.
It is also crucial to evaluate the implementation of the Kinshasa agreement reached between Zimbabwe and the Kimberly Process in Kinshasa in November 2011 in light of the continuation of massive smuggling of diamonds.
On the day he delivered a post 2012 budget statement, Finance Minister Tendai Biti was Lance Guma’s guest on Question Time, answering questions from SW Radio Africa listeners. The MDC-T Secretary General tells Guma “I’ve never gone to a night club because my life was cut short by Zanu PF, because I had to fight it.”
MUTARE – President Robert Mugabe who celebrated his 88th birthday in the diamond mining town of Mutare under the theme “wealth to the youth” had his voice drowned by the youth who chatted animatedly throughout his hour plus long speech.
In 2008 the Zimbabwean army took control of the Marange diamond fields using troops and helicopter gunships, killing and wounding many small scale miners in the process. Since then diamond mining concessions have been allocated to several companies in questionable circumstances.