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Was Kudzi Keita a diamond dealer and a hustler?
THE first thing which would hit you about Kudzai Keita was his SURNAME.It's not a common surname in Zimbabwe and rarely does one find it being associated with a name like Kudzai.It's a...Published: 01 Nov 2024 at 10:08hrs | 1423 | by Staff reporter
Illegal diamond mining movie set to premiere
FILM enthusiasts are set for a treat tomorrow at Ster Kinekor Sam Levy Cinemas in Harare at the premiere of Ngoda, a production whose synopsis is inspired by the illegal diamond mining world.T...Published: 30 Mar 2023 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
RBZ in gems mop up deal
THE government has structured a deal that will see the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) buying excess diamonds as it moves to shut out unscrupulous dealers that have been dribbling authorities....Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 19:30hrs | 1 | by Staff rteporter
Illegal diamond dealer robbed of US$10,000
ARMED robbers raided an illegal diamond buyer at Marange diamond fields last Friday and robbed him of US$10 000 and a vehicle at gunpoint after dangling pieces of diamonds to the unsuspecting diamond ...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 04:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
US$20m externalised in Zimbabwe diamond sales
MORE than US$20 million was illegally moved out of the country's borders in murky deals involving blacklisted diamond dealer Jamal Ahmed in an opaque sale of one million carats of diamonds from the Mi...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 19:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Power play rocks Zimra
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) board was allegedly pressured by Treasury to appoint Morris Mpofu as acting commissioner-general, a move which was quickly reversed last week by the government i...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Diamond scam hits Zimbabwe
One buyer has been snapping up all parcels at diamond auctions amid concerns some officials from the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) and the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MM...Published: 18 Mar 2021 at 06:43hrs | 2 | by Staff rpeorter
I'm not here to plunder Zimbabwe . . .
ZIMBABWE is seeking to establish fully-fledged diplomatic relations with Israel. Our (ND) senior reporter Tinashe Kairiza spoke to Zimbabwe's honorary consul in Israel Ronny Musan (RM) who spoke about...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mozambican faces deportation for overstaying
A SUSPECTED Mozambican diamond dealer was nabbed in Mutare for overstaying in the country and is now facing deportation.Lebbe Ninema (29), who was represented by Mutare lawyer Farai Matinhure,...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's farm equipment auctioned
Former president Robert Mugabe's farm equipment and vehicles are set to go under the hammer in what could signal a collapse of the once thriving diversified business empire. A local auction fi...Published: 10 May 2019 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cop nailed in $2 million diamond theft
A POLICE detective and his Nigerian accomplice who duped a licenced diamond dealer of precious gems worth over US$2million have been slapped with a four year jail-term.Goodhope Mavhengeri (42)...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Duo up for $2m diamonds theft
TWO men are on trial for theft of 375 pieces of diamonds valued at $2 million from a Chikanga woman.Tineyi Mudavanhu, 30, and Goodhope Mavhengere, 43, are denying the charges and judgment will...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 08:59hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
How diamond smuggling is thriving in Zimbabwe
SITTING under a shade with eyes glued on a road in Mozambique's Manica town's affluent suburb, a group of five young men scans all directions for potential suppliers of diamonds.The street is ...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:26hrs | 12 | by Wealth of Nations
'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
Tycoon fights Grace Mugabe
A Lebanese businessman who is locked in a $1,3 million diamond ring wrangle with former first lady Grace Mugabe has filed opposing papers in the High Court, claiming the ex-Zanu-PF women’s league se...Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 10:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Pastor's wife survives three gun shots during robbery
A MUTARE-BASED Christ Embassy Church pastor's wife survived three gun bullets that were pumped into her body by two armed robbers who stormed their house in the eastern border city.The two unk...Published: 08 Feb 2018 at 06:54hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Diamond dealer loses $17k to illegal panners
A PROMINENT Mutare dealer lost $17 000 to four illegal diamond panners who lured him to the Chiadzwa diamond fields on the pretext of selling him some precious gems but later robbed him in broad dayli...Published: 03 Nov 2017 at 09:39hrs | 1 | by Straff Reporter
Man, ex-wife to share diamond riches
A MUTARE diamond dealer, who made rich pickings at the height of diamond mining in Chiadzwa and acquired a fleet of vehicles and a house in a leafy suburb, lost his bid to send his erstwhile wife away...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 11:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'CIO' officers hassle cops
THERE was drama in Mutare's Central Business District after two bogus Central Intelligence Organisation officers – who were part of a 10-member gang that was illegally dealing in diamonds recently q...Published: 01 Jul 2017 at 14:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe threatens diamond dealer in Whatsapp chats
First Lady Grace Mugabe sent threatening WhatsApp chats to a and Lebanese businessman, Ahmed Jamal over a $1,35 million diamond ring.In the chats used as exhibits in court, G...Published: 01 Mar 2017 at 03:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean diamond dealer shot dead in own house
A WELL-known Marange diamond dealer - Blessing Chikwangura - was last week gunned down following a ruthless raid on his house in Kusena Village by two armed robbers who got away with $3 000 after ...Published: 10 Feb 2017 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe diamond dealer keen to return to Zimbabwe
First Lady Grace Mugabe's diamond dealer Jamal Ahmed is anxious to return to Zimbabwe but he is scared he might be immediately be arrested.Ahmed, a Lebanese businessperson&n...Published: 27 Jan 2017 at 05:19hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Grace Mugabe on R100 million spending spree
With Zimbabwe teetering on the edge of financial collapse, First Lady Grace Mugabe is spending millions on new properties and jewellery and is building the country's most expensive schools for the eli...Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 16:31hrs | 1 | by Peta Thornycroft
No to picnic on Gukurahundi graves
My People, I have been busy trying to recover the more than $1 million that I was swindled by a known international criminal. As a result, I was not able to follow developments back home for a few...Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 12:34hrs | 6 | by Dr Stop It
How Zimbabwe's dictatorship has played out
While 2016 ominously came to a close with long bank queues nationwide owing to egregious economic mismanagement by the Robert Mugabe regime, 2017 is set to be another annus horribilis for Zimbabwe, pr...Published: 15 Jan 2017 at 08:52hrs | 1 | by Paul Simon
Diamond dealer dupes Grace Mugabe, Zimbabwe police launch manhunt
Police in Zimbabwe have launched a manhunt for Lebanese diamond dealer Jamal Ahmed, who is accused by First Lady Grace Mugabe of duping her in a botched $1.3m diamond ring transaction, a report sa...Published: 12 Jan 2017 at 12:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police dragged into Grace Mugabe's $1,4 million ring saga
POLICE have launched a manhunt for Lebanese diamond dealer, Jamal Ahmed, accused of swindling First Lady Grace Mugabe of $1,4 million in a botched diamond ring transaction.Court papers fil...Published: 12 Jan 2017 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe cries victim on diamond ring scandal
First Lady Grace Mugabe has played the victims card in her $1.4 million diamond ring saga saying she did not invade anyone's premises but she is a mere victim of a person she described as ...Published: 11 Jan 2017 at 03:42hrs | | by Alice Dube
Mugabe's contempt for Zimbabwe
Happy and content must be the land whose president is confident and secure enough to fly off on a month-long holiday with bucket and spade and doesn't even leave a forwarding address.There...Published: 10 Jan 2017 at 20:56hrs | 1 | by Zimvigil
Zimbabwe's expensive holiday season
As Zimbabweans tighten their belts at another bleak Christmas, President Mugabe is taking a month-long rest in Singapore. He left Harare by chartered plane on 20th December accompanied by his fami...Published: 10 Jan 2017 at 20:43hrs | | by ZimVigil
'Go hang', Grace Mugabe tells High Court
First Lady Grace Mugabe has shown the High Court a middle finger as she defied an order to move out from properties she seized from a Lebanese diamond dealer.Grace is embroiled in ...Published: 05 Jan 2017 at 04:40hrs | 2 | by Alice Dube
'We are Zimbabwe'
'L'etat c'est moi' (I am the state) was a remark by King Louis XIV that reflected the despotic regime before the French Revolution, when the people lived in poverty, lorded over by a rich aristocr...Published: 11 Dec 2016 at 17:54hrs | | by ZimVigil
Two cops nabbed over diamond robbery
Two Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) cops were arrested together with two Chimanimani thugs after robbing diamond dealers at Jinga village in Chimanimani.It is alleged two cops from Gweru rural ...Published: 11 Dec 2016 at 17:18hrs | 3 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Grace scandals embarass Mugabe
First Lady Grace Mugabe who has a well documented history of enjoying a jet-set lifestyle has been caught up in a $1,4 million diamong ring scandal involving a Lebanese diamond dealer....Published: 09 Dec 2016 at 10:12hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Patrick Zhuwao! You must stop talking nonsense! Mnangagwa is better enemy than G40
Emmerson Mangagwa is an enemy of the peoples of Mathebeleland. We know this as far back as 1980. We know how he was assigned to deal with us people of Mathebeleland, on his capacity as Minister for Se...Published: 06 Dec 2016 at 14:26hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Diamond dealers nabbed at tollgate
WELL known Mutare diamond dealers, Never Chikwenha and Abbas Macky, who were arrested last week at Ruwa tollgate, after being found in possession of 38 carats of diamond with a black market value of m...Published: 22 Jan 2016 at 06:51hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Zuva's fuel dealer desert workers
Over 20 workers at Palmerstone Service Station leased to Venspace Investments by ZUVA Petroleum have said they were left in the cold after their employer packed all the stock worth over $8 000 at the ...Published: 21 Sep 2015 at 09:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Facelift for Zim diamonds
DIAMOND dealers have expressed satisfaction over the prospects of diamonds at the opening of the diamonds tender in Harare yesterday ahead of a mega local auction in November.Local diamond...Published: 02 Oct 2014 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man kidnaps ex-wife, attacks boyfriend
A WELL-known Mutare diamond dealer last Friday ran amok and hacked a rival suitor with a machete before kidnapping his ex-wife.Herbert Satiya (25) is alleged to have kidnapped his ex-wife from...Published: 22 Mar 2014 at 07:54hrs | 2 | by Abel Zhakata
Prominent businessmen in street brawl
PROMINENT Mutare businessmen clashed in the city last Saturday in what insiders said was a feud stemming from extortion allegations in which one of them allegedly demanded that his colleague should pa...Published: 22 Mar 2014 at 07:52hrs | | by Cletus Mushanawani
Mbada Diamonds the Mega Hoax of our time
Characterized by a clean-cut image, splash spending and flamboyant donations, every person dream of being part of the Mbada Diamonds brand. Its Chairman with more body guards and a convoy that can ma...Published: 06 Mar 2014 at 11:30hrs | 4 | by Ticha Taengerwei
SA diamond dealer 'financing' Bona Mugabe wedding
A prominent and wealthy South African businessperson is reportedly said to be one of the financiers of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's birthday bash and his daughter Bona's wedding.Mu...Published: 21 Feb 2014 at 14:32hrs | 1 | by News24
CIO launches operation 'Muchombi Ndiani', crackdown on Tsvangirai mooted
Operation Muchombi Ndiani (Who is the traitor and sell-out among us) launched.HARARE - Zimbabwe's dreaded spy agency, the Central Intelligence Organi...Published: 18 Feb 2014 at 16:52hrs | 6 | by Mary-Kate Kahari
Famona couple up for forgery
A Famona woman and her husband, who is on the run, have been caught in the eye of a storm after they allegedly forged a Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) official's signature and the o...Published: 28 Dec 2013 at 20:34hrs | 4 | by Court Reporter
Teenagers selling sex at Murambinda growth point
MURAMBINDA - An immaculate Jeep Cherokee belonging to an illegal diamond dealer grinds to a stop in front of a night club at the growth point.Heavy duty trucks and long distance buses are als...Published: 28 Apr 2013 at 17:55hrs | 1 | by Clayton Masekesa
Young girls trade sex for food
MURAMBINDA - Poverty has driven scores of young girls here, some barely in their teens, to prostitution to raise money for food for their families and for their school fees.Some of them ar...Published: 20 Jan 2013 at 10:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
CIO rocked by foreign intelligence agents infiltrations
Zimbabwe`s dreaded spy agency, the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) is reportedly rocked by a wave of purges on it`s operatives suspected of doubling up for the Mossad, Israel`s intelligence ar...Published: 02 Jul 2012 at 05:25hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF politburo members linked to Israeli and Russian underworld dealers
Two senior Zanu-PF politburo members minister of State for Presidential Affairs Didymus Mutasa and his Indigenous counterpart Saviour Kasukuwere, have been linked to Israeli and Russian underworld gol...Published: 16 Mar 2012 at 08:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
American companies desperate for Zim diamonds
DESPITE spirited attempts by the US government to prevent Zimbabwe from exporting diamonds mined in Chiadzwa, American companies are running a desperate campaign to collect jewellery from the public ...Published: 01 Oct 2011 at 22:48hrs | | by Moyo Roy
How did Zim mines minister become a tycoon from earning just $250USD per month
A foreign-based Zim journalist, attending a conference at University of Witwatersrand in South Africa to discuss resource governance of Marange diamonds recently, raised a question that many Zimbabwea...Published: 03 Sep 2011 at 11:24hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile
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