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ZCDC to sue contractor over failed borehole project
The Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) is preparing to take legal action against Diamond Base Company, a contractor hired to drill 20 boreholes in Chiadzwa, after the US$100,000 project fail...Published: 18 Jul 2025 at 14:45hrs | 197 | by Staff reporter
Community share ownership trust CEO faces arrest
TRADITIONAL leaders, villagers and other stakeholders have called for the arrest Chiadzwa Community Share Ownership Trust (CCSOT) Chief executive officer Hardwork Mukwada over charges of abuse of fund...Published: 04 Apr 2024 at 13:42hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa cancels Marange 'thank you rally'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has cancelled his first thank you rally that was scheduled for St Noah College in Bocha, Manicaland province on Saturday.NewsDay is reliably informed that the rall...Published: 28 Mar 2024 at 06:25hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Chiadzwa community, govt and ZCDC smoke peace pipe
GOVERNMENT and the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Corporation (ZCDC) have backed down from a protracted confrontation with the Chiadzwa community over a contentious proposal to invest US$400 million in...Published: 28 May 2023 at 08:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Corrupt US$400m deal morphs into political fix
The controversial deal to get state-run Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Corporation (ZCDC) to acquire a 33% shareholding in Great Dyke Investment (GDI) for US$400 million has taken a political turn, wit...Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 19:46hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe, Matanga taken to court
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe have been sued over their arbitrary ban on a demonstration against the looting of diamonds in Marange and failure b...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 05:09hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Marange villagers take police head-on
CHIADZWA villagers and civil society organisations (CSOs) have sued the police for banning a planned demonstration against the looting of diamonds and human rights abuses perpetrated by State security...Published: 28 Nov 2022 at 04:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Marange villagers demand relocation
VILLAGERS in Marange are demanding relocation in protest against being put in a restriction camp under the Protected Places and Areas Act (PPAA).The villagers, who said PPAA had subjected the ...Published: 10 Nov 2022 at 04:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa administration elbows out British investor under a cloud
The Zimbabwean government has - under unclear circumstances - frozen a multi-million diamond deal involving a London-listed British company, Vast Resources Plc, as the post-coup administration increas...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 07:09hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Chiadzwa protesters out on bai
TWENTY-EIGHT Chiadzwa villagers and their headman Robert Chiadzwa yesterday appeared in court facing public violence charges after they allegedly demonstrated against Chinese diamond miner, Anjin, on ...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean diamonds producer expands into Botswana
VAST Resources says its acquisition of Gem Diamonds Botswana (GDB), a wholly-owned subsidiary of London headquartered Gem Diamonds, aligns with its longer-term strategy to "maximise and crystallise" t...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:52hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Army-linked Anjin grabs richest diamond claim
AN army-linked miner, Anjin Investments (Pvt) Ltd, grabbed the most lucrative diamond claim in Marange from a firm owned by the government after being relicensed under unclear circumstances, it has em...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:47hrs | 2 | by Kenneth Matimaire
UK firm readies for Zimbabwe diamond mining
UNITED Kingdom-based Vast Resources Plc (Vast) says it has raised £300 000 (US$393 130) through a placement and subscription of shares as it prepares for the signing of a joint venture contract at Ch...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe misled over $100m Chinese small-scale miners' facility
Mines ministry officials lied to former President Robert Mugabe in 2016 about the Chinese setting up a $100 million facility to support small-scale miners, Parliament was told on Tuesday.The i...Published: 25 Oct 2018 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mines officials accused of lying over $100m small-scale miners facility
Mines ministry officials lied to former President Robert Mugabe in 2016 about the Chinese setting up a $100 million facility to support small-scale miners, Parliament was told yesterday.The is...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 06:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Chiadzwa diamond field killings are state-sponsored'
Civic society groups in Zimbabwe claim that state-sponsored violence is taking place at the Chiadzwa diamond fields as the government attempts to keep illegal dealers and panners at bay.The Ce...Published: 01 Mar 2018 at 16:03hrs | 19 | by TimesLive
Mnangagwa petitioned over diamond fields terror
Marange villagers have petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Parliament to help lift restrictions imposed on their movement in 2009 which they claim has exposed them to abuse by security forces ...Published: 01 Mar 2018 at 14:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: A failed state caused by greediness and corruption
People's Democratic Party Secretary for Policy Harare Province, Tendai Mazenge has said the challenge Zimbabwe faces is that, unless the political culture is transformed there will be a continuity of ...Published: 29 Oct 2017 at 17:13hrs | | by Tendai Mazenge
Zimbabwe: A failed state caused by greediness and corruption-PDP
People's Democratic Party Secretary for Policy in Harare Province, Tendai Mazenge has said Zimbabwe is a failed state due to greediness by leaders who run the nation through corruption.Mazenge...Published: 02 Jan 2017 at 09:38hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe: A failed state caused by greediness and corruption
The challenge we face in Zimbabwe is that, unless we transform our political culture, we will continue to see the economics of poverty and oppression. What happened to our once beautiful and productiv...Published: 29 Dec 2016 at 10:34hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Court clears Operation Hakudzokwi Commemoration
The Mutare Magistrate's Court has cleared the commemoration for Operation Hakudzokwi which is scheduled for the 1st of November in the diamond rich Marange communal lands. Operation Hakudzokwi (You sh...Published: 19 Oct 2016 at 17:54hrs | 4 | by Stephen Jakes
Court overturns ban of commemoration of Chiadzwa brutal crackdown
The court has overturned a Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) ban of a meeting organised by the Chiadzwa Community Development Trust (CCDT) to commemorate events that took place in their community d...Published: 19 Oct 2016 at 17:52hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Mutare District Administrator demands payment from displaced Arda Transau Villagers
The District Administrator for Mutare District left the impoverished Arda Transau villagers in shock yesterday, 23 September 2015, when he demanded that they pay $100 per family if they want to utiliz...Published: 25 Sep 2015 at 15:50hrs | | by Centre for Natural Resources Governance and Chiadzwa Community Development Trust
Only 2 pupils pass at Chiadzwa school
ONLY two pupils at Chiadzwa Primary School passed Grade Seven examinations last year, amid reports that mining companies in the area were not interested in funding educational programmes.Melan...Published: 02 Apr 2013 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinese workers film bathing Zimbabwe women
Controversy keeps dogging Anjin, the Marange-based diamond mining company jointly owned by a Chinese concern and the Zimbabwean government.Recently, this paper revealed that the company was st...Published: 06 Sep 2012 at 10:32hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Marange communities get boost
The state media reports that the Chiadzwa Community Development Trust (CCDT) has stepped up efforts to enhance the benefication process for the communities living in the Marange area with the locals c...Published: 06 May 2012 at 04:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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