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“It’s like having the owners of Manchester United one day being coaches,” the observer said. The initial appointment of Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) board member Moris Mpofu to Acting Commissioner General (CG) is evidence enough that the whole board must be fired, observers note.
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) has reversed its controversial appointment of Moris Mpofu as the authority’s Acting Commissioner General and re-instated Rameck Masaire who had retired.
In May 2019, the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) board of directors fired seven senior executives, including then CEO Mpofu following reports of rampant corruption and abuse of office. Mpofu at one point in that same year was arraigned on charges of criminal abuse of office charges after he allegedly recommended that ZCDC should sell diamonds to a blacklisted buyer.
Mutare City Council has availed 55 hectares of land in Fern Hill for the construction of a multi-million dollar diamond centre or Gemology Park as efforts to accrue maximum benefits from diamonds value chain gather pace.
The Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company’s (ZCDC) stock pile of about 1,5 million carats has improved its gem or near gem quality from predominantly industrial quality by 34 percentage points following an enhanced cleaning and deep boiling exercise that aims to maximise on revenue.