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Zimbabwe deploys military in newfound oilfields
ZIMBABWE'S military incursion into the Mashonaland Central province for a routine training exercise is part of efforts by the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) to familiarise itself with the area as the S...Published: 07 Oct 2022 at 20:43hrs | 52 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe leaders eagerly defending Chinese colonialism!
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,I love comparing life in Rhodesia vis-a-vis independent Zimbabwe as those are the only two epochs we have known ever since the establishment of the modern-day...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:37hrs | 15 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe's rural communities resist opaque Chinese projects
ZIMBABWE is witnessing growing conflicts between Chinese mining companies and indigenous communities who are being evicted from their ancestral lands without compensation to pave way for mining operat...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:41hrs | 75 | 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
Zimra executives in US$585m tax evasion corruption scam
CORRUPTION skeletons involving a series of multi-billion-dollar tax evasion scandals are tumbling out of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) cupboard amid a new corruption scam involving Chinese di...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 11:17hrs | 3 | 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
Mnangagwa to tender resignation as Zimbabwe leader to avoid humiliating exit
COLOGNE/HARARE– President Emmerson Mnangagwa is reportedly due to tender his resignation as the country’s leader in less than twelve months, to avoid a humiliating exit, after failing to resolve Z...Published: 14 May 2019 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Itai Mushekwe/Mary-kate Kahari
Mnangagwa, Alrosa strike joint diamonds deal
GOVERNMENT will be partnering leading Russian diamond producer Alrosa Diamond Company (Alrosa) in the extraction and processing of gemstones from numerous deposits which have been confirmed across the...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 14:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chinese miner ordered to pay ex-workers $400,000 in Zimbabwe
Chinese diamond miner, Anjin, has been ordered to pay its former employees over $400 000 as compensation after they lost their jobs following a government directive to close the mine.Anjin, wh...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 09:49hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
There is always a price to pay
Are elections a real mode of change in some African countries? Africa can not be painted now with one brush as some states have embraced democracy for real whereas in some states democracy is a myth ....Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 18:23hrs | 1 | by AT Kadada
Chinese sneak back into Chiadzwa
CHINESE diamond miner Anjin Investment is set to resume mining operations in Chiadzwa after the government allegedly bowed to pressure from Beijing.Anjin and other diamond companies were barre...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 10:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa threatens to prosecute forex culprits
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Monday named hundreds of mines, Chinese businesses and individuals who had illegally transferred foreign currency abroad during Robert Mugabe's rule and warned they wou...Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 15:10hrs | | by AFP
Jinan diamond saga mystery - rewind
MYSTERY surrounds the investigation into a case in which Jinan Diamond Mining Company allegedly externalised US$585 million, amid revelations the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has no docket of ...Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 14:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Diamond revenue to date not anywhere near $15bn'
THE Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) has revealed that the country has to date sold diamonds worth $2,4 billion as calls become louder for investigations into the alleged $15 billion ...Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 10:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man exhumes over 2 000 graves from Mugabe's diamond fields
UPFUMI Hwepasi Kuvatema leader Mathew Mundondo, the man involved in the exhumation of human remains from diamond mining sites in Chiadzwa and Marange since 2009, has aptly described his job as "not or...Published: 24 Jul 2017 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe lashes out at Chinese for using him
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has lashed out at his "all-weather friends" - the Chinese - for allegedly using him to hoodwink the people of Manicaland province into believing they would benefit from proceed...Published: 19 Jun 2017 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chinese trucks are blocked at border post
BUSINESS at Forbes Border Post in Mutare nearly came to a standstill when at least 15 trucks loaded with equipment from a Chinese diamond mining company in Chiadzwa were blocked from entering Moza...Published: 03 Apr 2017 at 07:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chinese firm to set up diamond cutting factory in Zimbabwe
Chinese diamond processing firm, Harvest Way Enterprises Limited has reaffirmed its commitment to setting up a diamond cutting and polishing factory in Zimbabwe to promote the country's value addition...Published: 10 Jul 2016 at 20:44hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
3.7 million carats of diamonds smuggled from Zimbabwe
Chinese diamond mining company Anjin Investments, in which the military has an interest, a few years ago smuggled 3.7 million carats of diamonds from Chiadzwa mining fields in Marange worth about ...Published: 13 May 2016 at 09:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Military linked security company embarks on retrenchment spree
A private security company jointly owned by Zimbabwe Defence Forces and a consortium of retired high ranking military officers reportedly embarked on an employment termination spree in its Chiadzwa Op...Published: 06 Jan 2016 at 05:59hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Man with 14 wives gets 8 houses from diamonds firm
Johanne Marange Apostolic Church super dad, Philemon Johwanu Kaiboni Kambeni, has been allocated eight houses by Anjin diamond mining firm after staging a month-long housing protest.Kambeni ...Published: 21 Aug 2014 at 15:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
200 diamond miners down tool over salaries
AT LEAST 200 workers at a Chiadzwa-based Chinese diamond mining firm, Jinan Mining, allegedly downed their tools Friday demanding their outstanding salaries for the past two months.Workers com...Published: 04 Jan 2014 at 08:46hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Five more airlines apply to fly into Zimbabwe
Five airlines have applied to start flying into Zimbabwe this year, a development that could increase traffic and revenue for the tourism sector. The airlines are Air France, Bulgarian Airlin...Published: 21 Feb 2013 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Extension of sanctions, undermines the country's efforts to leverage its economy: Mutambara
Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara on Wednesday said the extension of sanctions this week by the USA on Mbada Diamonds and Marange Resources undermines the country's efforts to leverage its econo...Published: 16 Dec 2011 at 15:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
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