Marange

Zimbabwe Republic Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga last week said he was not aware that the force had a mining concession at Chiadzwa diamond fields in Marange.
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Marange villagers have petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, and Parliament to help lift restrictions imposed on their movement in 2009 which they claim has exposed them to abuse by security forces and guards at the…
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The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has taken over the production of diamonds in the country in an effort to promote transparency in the sector.
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By Professor Mutodzi A local civic group has organised a meeting to commemorate the deaths and maiming of hundreds of citizens by the state in Marange diamond fields 2008. Meanwhile, a Mutare magistrate has barred a police attempt…
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By Ken Yamamoto |The Zimbabwean| Way before Marange, Mugabe and his military men had already started rampant racketeering, illegal mafia-style smuggling, double-crossing, double dealing, as well as illegal arms peddling with Congolese…
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MARANGE - For many villagers in Marange, a village 90 kilometers South-west of Mutare in Zimbabwe, poverty seems to rule the roost despite the much talked-about Zimunya-Marange Community Share Ownership Trust, as ordinary people in this…
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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.
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In 1896, De Beers was given a monopoly over any discoveries of diamond deposits in Rhodesia. Over the following 100 years they did little to justify this right and all that the country had to show for this concession to the largest diamond…
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Despite concerted efforts by the Zimbabwe government to sanitise the Marange diamonds, these fields can aptly be described as an outpost of human rights abuses, writes Andrew Mambondiyani.
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MUTARE — Families relocated from the controversial Chiadzwa diamond fields are singing the blues after some of the companies extracting the gems in Marange dumped them at Arda Transau resettlement area without providing them with…
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