Marange

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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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.
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BULAWAYO - The Welshman Ncube led Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has condemned war veterans and ex ZANLA members for undermining Ndebele traditional customs, values and culture, saying this will spark a tribal war.
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Robert Mugabe has brought his quiet feud with former South African President Nelson Mandela into the open, jealously claiming his coalition partner Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai had nothing to celebrate from being likened to the…
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FINANCE minister, Tendai Biti, has accused a small coterie of powerful Zimbabweans of looting diamonds from Marange, enabling themselves to splash millions of dollars on private jets while ordinary people wallowed in abject poverty.
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The discovery of diamonds in June 2006 by villagers in the Marange area in rural Chiadzwa, 90km southwest of Mutare, has been a mixed blessing for Zimbabwe.
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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.
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ZIMBABWE'S women football, revitalised by the resurgence of the Mighty Warriors, will have a flagship sponsor this week when their marriage with Marange Resources, is unveiled in the capital on Friday. The package will include a sponsorship…
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A Zimbabwean diamond field said to be the largest in the world is being mined by companies staffed by Robert Mugabe's police and military chiefs who may use the proceeds to crack down on opposition supporters, Global Witness has warned.
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Zimbabwe plans to increase diamond mining fees to up to $5.0 million, state media said on Friday, just one month after winning approval from the global "blood diamond" watchdog to export the gems.
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