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Manica Diamond offers US$20,000 for Billiat
Manica Diamonds have sneaked in front of Dynamos and other competitors in the race to sign former Warriors talisman Khama Billiat, with the Mutare-based side said to have offered him a "deal that is d...Published: 18 Feb 2024 at 09:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mining sector rakes in US$5,3 billion
Zimbabwe generated US$5,3 billion from mineral exports last year, half the US$12 billion mining industry target set for next year with output rising and new mines opening or re-opening, Mines and Mini...Published: 24 Mar 2022 at 05:17hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe happy to assume World Kimberley Process post
Zimbabwe says it is greatly honoured to have been elected vice chair for the World Kimberley Process for 2022, at a time when local diamond production is scaling new records.The election was d...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:51hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Explosive dossier exposes Chiadzwa gems tax sleaze
A whistleblower has submitted an explosive dossier to the Zimbabwe revenue Authority (Zimra) providing insight into how diamond mining firms in the Chiadzwa diamond fields in Manicaland, evaded tax ob...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa asked Murowa to leave School Premises: Murowa Refused!
I am deeply concerned about Murowa Diamond Miners' activities in and around Sese communal lands in central Chivi District, Masvingo, Zimbabwe. Of major concerns are; the arbitrary establishment of the...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 15:24hrs | | by Sam Wezhira
Amplats warns Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE'S decision to compel exporters to surrender more of their foreign currency earnings may leave miners unable to fund operations, Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), one of the country's biggest...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 21:45hrs | 7 | 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
Panners dig up Chiadzwa graves
Cheeky illegal diamond miners have reportedly invaded and dug up some graves in search of the precious stone in Chiadzwa. This came out during a meeting of traditional leaders in Chiadzwa last...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 07:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Murowa Diamonds swindled in aircraft purchase deal
RIO Tinto-run Murowa Diamonds (Pvt) Ltd was allegedly swindled of $85 000 by Wilderness Safaris Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd after the latter failed to supply an aircraft despite having received the full paymen...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
3 Chiadzwa panners die in mine shaft collapse
THREE illegal diamond miners died in Chiadzwa on Wednesday night after a mine shaft they were working on at a Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) field reportedly collapsed.Manicaland...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 08:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Diamond miners demand pay rise
THE Zimbabwe Diamond and Allied Minerals Workers' Union (Zdamwu) has written to the National Employment Council for the mining industry, requesting an urgent meeting to consider salary adjustments to ...Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 06:53hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
4 up for stealing diamonds
FOUR suspected rifle-wielding armed robbers appeared in court facing accusations of stealing diamond ore in Chiadzwa where Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) is operating. Foaster Mu...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 06:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
De Beers snubs Zimbabwe invitation to mine diamonds in Marange
De Beers and Vast Resources will be allowed to explore for diamonds in Zimbabwe, which would make them the first listed companies to mine there in that sector for two years, Mining Minister Winston Ch...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 07:42hrs | 1 | by Reuters
Diamonds output increases
THE Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company has recorded a 54 percent jump in after Government extended US$80 million to recapitalise the company.ZCDC was created by Government under Special Gra...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-Anjin employees petition court over terminal benefits
Chinese miner Anjin's former employees have petitioned the High Court seeking leave to execute judgment pending appeal after the diamond miners obtained an order thwarting the attachment of its proper...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe diamond output to shatter records'
THE Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company is expected to smash production records as it guns for a three million carat haul this year, driven by US$100 million invested in operations over the last two...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 08:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: We rise and fall together
The prophets of 'scorched earth politics are at it again. Suddenly, according to their reading Zimbabwe is back to year 2008. What utter nonsense! The scenarios could never be more different. If we ar...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 18:23hrs | 3 | by Lloyd Msipa
Congrats to Hon Winston Chitando
Dear, The Murowa Community Ward would like to congratulate Hon. Chitando on his appointment as the minister of mines.Congrats Makorokoto Amhlope...We salute this wise appointme...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 15:09hrs | 1 | by Murowa Ward Community
Why Mliswa support Mnangagwa
NORTON legislator Temba Mliswa is often regarded as a "fork-tongued" politician who talks too much and claims no allegiance to any political party by day, yet he allegedly supports Zanu-PF and Preside...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 11:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Diamonds boss admits Marange diamond looting
ZIMBABWE Consolidation Diamond Company (ZCDC)'s chief executive officer, Morris Mpofu, has claimed that some of his subordinates were working in cahoots with illegal diamond miners to steal the gems f...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 07:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe could spill diamond beans
ZIMBABWE'S intelligence services bosses fear parliament's bid to summon former president Robert Mugabe to provide oral evidence on the supposed missing US$15 billion diamond revenues could open a Pand...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 16:38hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU slams Chinese violation of labour laws
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions has expressed concern over the alleged spike in labour abuse cases at Chinese-owned firms in the Midlands province.Speaking on the sidelines of the Worker...Published: 04 May 2018 at 07:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe's police grabbed army mines Mafia style'
DEFENCE secretary Martin Rushwaya yesterday claimed the Zimbabwe Defence Forces' diamond mining claims in Chiadzwa were grabbed by police in a "Mafia style" after the government ordered all miners to ...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
$15bn diamond saga deepens
FORMER secretary for mines, Francis Gudyanga yesterday claimed that there were powerful forces controlling the diamond mining sector, saying he had received unspecified threats from people he declined...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 07:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri, Mohadi face grilling over missing $15 billion
FIREWORKS are expected in Parliament today, when Vice-President Kembo Mohadi, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa and former police boss, Augustine Chihuri face grilling from the Temba Mliswa-led Parli...Published: 09 Apr 2018 at 07:29hrs | 2 | by Staff rpeorter
Chihuri, Chombo, Mpofu summoned to Parliament
HOME Affairs minister Obert Mpofu, former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo and ex-police boss Augustine Chihuri have been summoned to appear before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and E...Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Diamond miners to account for missing $15bn
DIAMOND miners from various parts of the country have been summoned to appear before the Mines and Energy Parliamentary Portfolio Committee today, to account for the country's missing $15 billion diam...Published: 05 Mar 2018 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
They lied - De Beers not investing in Zimbabwe anytime soon
LEADING global diamond trading, exploration and mining company De Beers Group remains focused on other African countries in which it is already established with no rush to return to Zimbabwe, our Hara...Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 05:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mutare houses converted to illegal diamond centres
Several houses in the leafy suburbs of Mutare have reportedly been converted into illegal diamond trading centres by a syndicate of foreigners that is receiving the precious stones from artisanal diam...Published: 26 Feb 2018 at 10:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa warns diamond company
MANICALAND Provincial Affairs minister Monica Mutsvangwa has warned the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) against neglecting communities they operate from as was the case with its predecess...Published: 06 Feb 2018 at 05:33hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
The $15bn diamond saga cannot be wished away
Last week, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa did a pathetic job of defending the indefensible.During debate in the National Assembly on the National Budget, he tried to dismiss former preside...Published: 24 Jan 2018 at 13:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Relief for arrested foreign nationals
Twenty one foreign nationals and prominent local rights activist Farai Maguwu were yesterday spared jail by a Mutare magistrate who fined them for trespassing following their arrest on Friday for hold...Published: 12 Nov 2017 at 16:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Three illegal diamond miners killed in Marange
The bodies of three illegal miners were recovered in the Marange diamond fields last month amid a fresh diamond rush, Mines minister Walter Chidakwa has told the Senate.Chidakwa told senators ...Published: 03 Oct 2017 at 13:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to displace more for diamond mining
Government - through its Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) - could relocate more people in Manicaland province to pave way for diamond mining, if it secures claims to the Tsvingwe area....Published: 28 Sep 2017 at 12:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Four illegal diamond miners drown in Chiadzwa
FOUR illegal diamond panners who trespassed into the protected Chiadzwa diamond fields drowned in a dam on Monday night following a chase by Zimbabwe Consolidate Diamond Company (Pvt) Ltd (ZCDC) secur...Published: 25 Aug 2017 at 10:21hrs | 8 | 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
Mugabe's govt squandered diamond revenues
DESPITE complaints from government which make it appear as though Treasury did not receive meaningful remittances from diamond mining companies, it has emerged the fiscus got US$472 million from Mbada...Published: 13 Apr 2017 at 14:21hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mujuru in shock Gukurahundi U-turn
FORMER Vice-President and opposition National People's Party (NPP) leader Joice Mujuru has admitted to literally lying when she denied she had no knowledge of government's Gukurahundi atrocities i...Published: 14 Mar 2017 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe diamond production declines by 62 percent
ZIMBABWE's diamond production declined by 62 percent to 924 388 carats since January this year due to court cases filed by evicted miners resisting Government's decision to consolidate the sector....Published: 07 Dec 2016 at 04:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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
Diamond miners face eviction
Zimbabwe is losing millions of dollars in potential revenue monthly as lucrative diamond claims in Marange lie idle following a stand-off between Government and the former miners whose special gra...Published: 07 Oct 2016 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe government won't pay diamond miners, yet it can't account for US$15 billion
Whilst the Zimbabwe government can not account for even a cent of over US$15 billion of diamond revenues, the people it used in mining those precious minerals are wallowing in abject poverty, as they ...Published: 23 Aug 2016 at 17:33hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe won't pay diamond miners, yet it can't account for $15 billion
Whilst the Zimbabwe government can not account for even a cent of over $15 billion of diamond revenues, the people it used in mining those precious minerals are wallowing in abject poverty, as they ha...Published: 23 Aug 2016 at 10:43hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Man claims $500 000 compensation over testicle loss
A 33-YEAR-OLD Chiadzwa man, who early this year had his right testicle surgically removed by doctors after suffering injuries in the groin due to alleged police brutality, has filed a $500 000 law...Published: 13 Jul 2016 at 08:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Looted Zimbabwe diamonds money 'stashed' in UK
Investigations into alleged looting of proceeds from the Chiadzwa diamond fields have extended to London following revelations by a British Parliamentarian that some of the money was stashed in th...Published: 12 Jun 2016 at 08:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rio Tinto defends Zimbabwe diamond sale
Rio Tinto defended its decision to sell a 78% stake in Murowa Diamonds and Sengwa Colliery to RZ Murowa Holdings - a transaction that has been criticised by the Zimbabwean government amid possible dea...Published: 25 May 2016 at 08:07hrs | | by miningmx
Mining tax regime unfair, says Zimra
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) says the country's mining tax regime must be reviewed, in the wake of shrinking royalties over the past year from the sector.Zimra chairperson Willia Bon...Published: 16 May 2016 at 15:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
How Mugabe opened himself to ridicule
IT might have been a slip of the tongue, but President Robert Mugabe's astounding revelation that diamonds worth $15 billion could have been stolen from Chiadzwa under his government's watch has spark...Published: 24 Apr 2016 at 17:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinese, Indian and Pakistani male bosses randomly raped Chiadzwa women - MPs
Several Chinese, Indian and Pakistani male bosses at Chiadzwa's diamond mining firms allegedly raped female workers at will, parliement heard.The ex-workers raised the allegations in Par...Published: 18 Apr 2016 at 08:51hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
'Diamond firms cheated us' - Villagers
Villagers in Marange, Zimunya are bitter that they have nothing to show for the rich diamond resources that were exploited by mining companies.The villagers' complaints were heard when the Par...Published: 03 Apr 2016 at 07:37hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
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