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Zimbabwe's liberation was the greatest farce of all time
The truth can be a bitter pill to swallow, but it needs to be taken if we are to heal our nation.Zimbabwe's liberation struggle, celebrated as a triumph over colonial oppression when independe...Published: 25 Feb 2025 at 21:11hrs | 1162 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Call for reparations: A mere excuse by failed African leaders!
As the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) kicked off this week in Samoa, the topic of reparations for slavery and colonialism has once again been thrust into the spotlight. Sever...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 20:31hrs | 281 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The curse of diamonds: How Zimbabwe's wealth is failing its people
I was listening this morning as the Minister of Mines, Winston Chitando, boasted over Zimbabwe's increasing diamond production. Indeed, Zimbabwe's diamond industry has long been touted as a be...Published: 01 Oct 2024 at 15:09hrs | 962 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Rushwaya emerges in the thick of shady Zimbabwe military dealings
FOR long, Martin Rushwaya was the military's point man in its multi-million-dollar commercial ventures, as the permanent secretary in the Defence ministry from 2009 until 2019.In April 2019, P...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:24hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's men had a Seychelles shell company
Zimbabwe's deputy chief secretary to the president and cabinet set up an offshore shell company in the Seychelles while serving as defence secretary, leaked financial documents show.Martin Rus...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Massive diamond plunder exposed in leak
DEPUTY chief secretary to the president and cabinet, Martin Rushwaya set up an offshore shell company in the Seychelles which was used to trade in diamonds while serving as defence secretary, leaked f...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's corrupt election funding exposed
THE ruling Zanu-PF mortgaged the country's natural resources in lieu of US$100 million in financial support ahead of the country's 2013 general elections, a new report by a local watchdog has shown....Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 17:54hrs | 31 | 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
Zimbabwe military stake stymies $4bn platinum project
A plan to build Zimbabwe's biggest platinum mine at a cost of about $4 billion is floundering because a military stake in the project has deterred potential backers, according to people familiar with ...Published: 15 May 2019 at 15:05hrs | 2 | by Bloomberg
Zimbabwe diamonds to be classified as conflict gems?
THE 69th plenary meeting of the United Nations (UN) has resolved to include a discussion on whether Zimbabwean diamonds should be classified as conflict gems during the inter-governmental organisation...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 17:13hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Pressure to block sale of Zimbabwe diamonds
AN alliance of international civil society organisations affiliated to the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) has urged the grouping of diamond-trading nations to classify Zimbabwe's gemston...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 06:44hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
'Need transparency' to end diamond looting, urge Global Witness - ED's answer, Voto fraudulento continua!
"The discovery of huge deposits of diamonds in Marange, eastern Zimbabwe, in the mid-2000s came at a time when Zimbabwe was facing crises on multiple fronts," said Global Witness in its recent report....Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 21:25hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
'No to continued plunder of our resources' - Marange: The Imprisoned Community
The discovery of diamonds in Marange in 2006 located in the Eastern part of Zimbabwe did not translate into the much anticipated benefits to the local inhabitants. The yearning for positive developmen...Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 08:12hrs | 5 | by Brian Maregedze
Grand theft: How diamonds were looted in Marange
In June 2006, one of the world's largest alluvial diamond deposits was discovered at Marange in eastern Zimbabwe. Estimated to yield between US1 to 1.7 billion dollars per annum, the revenue from thes...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 13:59hrs | 19 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Europe to crack down on 'second passport schemes'
Europe's security is being put at risk by golden passport schemes that have allowed states to sell citizenship or residency to potentially 'dangerous' individuals.This is according to EU justi...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 10:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Not My President - I am an Urbanite
Our hearts bleed with those who were slain by the trigger-happy military on Wednesday. What is more flabbergasting is the lack of sensitivity by those responsible of arming the soldiers with live bull...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 06:51hrs | | by Dr Gus Manatsa
Global Witness rule out free elections - not as long as ZDF looting in Marange continues
Global Witness add their name to those ruling out any hope of Zimbabwe holding free, fair and credible elections without first implementing the democratic reforms given the military involved in the pr...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 07:20hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwe mining deals must be scrutinised
THE US$4,2 billion platinum investment deal between government and Cyprus-based company Karo Resources, although positive at face value, needs to be scrutinised to ensure transparency and avoid corrup...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 14:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
$15bn diamond inquiry opens can of worms
THE current investigation on the missing $15 billion diamond revenue by the Temba Mliswa- led Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy has revealed serious corruption by top government bi...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
That was no Zimbabwe Spring
Hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans have taken to the streets in recent days in protest marches calling for Robert Mugabe to resign and then again to celebrate when the dictator was finally gone. Ten...Published: 25 Nov 2017 at 17:06hrs | | by Tapson Muchena
CIO company looted Zimbabwe diamonds
DESPITE reports that Kusena, a Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO)-owned company, which had mining rights in Chiadzwa, never took off, fresh evidence shows it operated under cover with a new name ...Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 20:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
How Zimbabwe squandered its diamond riches
Just a year before its citizens couldn't find basic food items in their stores in 2007 and were literally starving, Zimbabwe made the largest diamond find in recent history. The Marange fields were so...Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 10:12hrs | 3 | by Shannon Ebrahim
Watchdog zooms in on Zimbabwe's missing $15 billion
Zimbabwe's ruling elite has diverted the country's vast diamond riches to help fund repression by dodging sanctions and raising money for security forces, an anti-corruption campaign group alleged Mon...Published: 11 Sep 2017 at 15:58hrs | | by Agencies
Zimbabwe army 'profiting' from diamond mining
International campaign group Global Witness has released a new report outlining what it says are the ...Published: 11 Sep 2017 at 09:29hrs | 1 | by BBC
How Mugabe double-crossed Joseph Kabila
"Way before Marange, Mugabe and his military men had already started rampant racketeering, illegal mafia-style smuggling, double-crossing, double dealing, as well as illegal arms peddling with Congole...Published: 04 Oct 2016 at 16:10hrs | 1 | by Ken Yamamoto
$15bn was 'not looted only mispriced' Chinamasa tells BBC HardTalk
"Zanu-PF remains a very solid, cohesive formidable political force in Zimbabwe," Zimbabwe's Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa told Zeina Badawi on the BBC programme Hardtalk. Zanu-PF is imploding...Published: 05 Jul 2016 at 19:28hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Regime change Agent Code words
Because the US-EU imperialist media apparatus prematurely and arrogantly proclaimed themselves victors of what was labelled in political circles as the Cold War, this led our former colonisers and ens...Published: 20 May 2016 at 06:25hrs | 2 | by Obi Egbuna Jr Simunye
Mugabe complaining about own theft
President Robert Mugabe claims that at least $15 billion was carted off Zimbabwe's coffers from diamond proceeds could be a classic case of "a thief reporting themselves to police", an influential...Published: 16 Mar 2016 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's Chinese friend detained in Beijing
Sam Pa, the enigmatic figure who allegedly helped finance the Central Intelligence Organisation before Zimbabwe's elections, has been detained in Beijing according to a report in The Financial Times....Published: 17 Oct 2015 at 11:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's Zimbabwe slides into famine
Zimbabwe's schizophrenia is in vivid evidence on Friday afternoons in the capital Harare's leafy northern suburbs.At the Tin Cup restaurant round the back of the Chisipite Shopping Centre, whi...Published: 17 Jul 2015 at 18:54hrs | 3 | by Newsweek
Mnangagwa looted diamonds, says Mutasa
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa colluded with the army and Chinese mining company Anjin Investments to steal diamonds from Marange, according to Didymus Mutasa.In an exclusive interview with...Published: 01 Apr 2015 at 16:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Diamond miner sucked into tax evasion scandal
FILTHY rich diamond mining outfit Mbada Diamonds and Anjin Investments have been sucked into a tax evasion where they are alleged to be using unconventional channels to sell gems as a way of evadi...Published: 11 Dec 2014 at 13:29hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Mujuru family involved in dirty gold
Evidence has emerged of the serving vice-president, Joice Mujuru and her family, husband Solomon, daughter Nyasha, and their son-in-law Pedro del Campo involvement in dirty gold and blood diamo...Published: 30 Oct 2014 at 08:23hrs | 5 | by Gerry Jackson
Zimbabwe should make hay while the SADC Chairmanship shines
Visitors help hosts straighten up very quickly. In anticipation of any guests, we find ourselves cleaning those crevices of our homes that we ordinarily would not attend to, so as to make a good impre...Published: 15 Aug 2014 at 18:47hrs | | by Victor Kgomoeswana
Zimbabwe army gets $40m in diamond revenues
THE Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA)-owned Glass Finish Investments Pvt Ltd has reportedly received $40 million to date in management fees in diamond mining concern Anjin despite not paying a cent for th...Published: 25 Apr 2014 at 08:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
How CIOs siphoned $70m loan facility
FURTHER details have emerged on how the shadowy CIO squandered $70 million provided by the Chinese government through state-controlled financial institutions following hints on the issue by deputy for...Published: 11 Apr 2014 at 16:00hrs | | by Elias Mambo
Farai Maguwu discusses conflict diamonds on Al Jazeera
This Friday on Al Jazeera's talk show South2North, author and media personality Redi Tlhabi discusses conflict diamonds in Africa with journalist Rafael Marques de Morais, author of Blood Diamonds: ...Published: 15 Nov 2013 at 03:29hrs | 1 | by Kevin Kriedemann & Joy Sapieka
Zim diamond money still missing
Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa says Treasury did not receive any proceeds from diamond revenue in the nine months to September 2013.The newly-appointed minister - currently scrounging f...Published: 06 Nov 2013 at 11:34hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'$550m worth of Zimbabwe diamonds stolen,' says Tsvangirai
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has said Zimbabwe's diamonds are a curse as proceeds from the sale of the gems have not benefited the country, with over $550 million unaccounted for in 2012....Published: 28 Oct 2013 at 04:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's diamonds speech at Oxford University - Fulltext
"The Zimbabwean experience of diamonds and how they have shaped our politics."It is always inspiring and a great honour to be invited to an august forum of such a prestigious and famous insti...Published: 25 Oct 2013 at 12:21hrs | 3 | by Morgan Tsvangirai
NGO slams Belgium's push for Zimbabwe sanctions removal
An international rights group has described as worrying Belgium's push for the removal of sanctions on the Zanu-PF-run Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC).On Thursday, an official ...Published: 07 Sep 2013 at 13:55hrs | 4 | by Nomalanga Moyo I SW Radio
Belgium demands lifting of Marange diamond sanctions
Brussels - Belgium, centre of the global diamond trade, is demanding that the European Union lift sanctions on a Zimbabwean mining firm despite deep concerns within the bloc over alleged fraud in a J...Published: 06 Sep 2013 at 08:06hrs | 2 | by Reuters
Zimbabwe fast running out of diamonds - claim
Zanu-PF's economic recovery programme buoyed by mining revenues appears to be a pipe dream if new claims are to be believed.Apparently expert sources say the Marange diamonds fields are fast d...Published: 29 Aug 2013 at 20:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 'blood diamonds' flood Dubai
FOR years, Zimbabwe has faced disapproval for its human rights abuses, farm seizures and political repression.International sanctions have targeted President Robert Mugabe's inner circle and t...Published: 07 Apr 2013 at 09:37hrs | 1 | by Financial Times
EU set to ease ZImbabwe sanctions
EU nations have been working on a deal to reward Harare by lifting some of the bloc's punishing sanctions against members of the regime.This happens as Zimbabwe prepares to vote on a new const...Published: 17 Feb 2013 at 13:04hrs | 3 | by Sapa-AFP
EU set to meet over Zimbabwe sanctions
The European Union is set to "ease" its illegal sanctions on Zimbabwe when the bloc's foreign ministers meet in Brussels, Belgium, tomorrow.Indications are that although some names will ...Published: 17 Feb 2013 at 12:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Deal sparks fear of a parallel govt in Zimbabwe
If recent reports of a planned platinum-for-arms deal between Russian State corporation Russian Technologies and Zimbabwe are true, then it may be another attempt at securing off-budget financin...Published: 24 Aug 2012 at 04:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter, Yolandi Booyens
Call to extend Zimbabwe sanctions
Parliament will this week hear calls to extend sanctions on Zimbabwe as Britain and the European Union are poised to suspend a variety of punitive measures in a bid to encourage reform.Peter H...Published: 16 Jul 2012 at 04:48hrs | | by Telegraph I Aislinn Laing and Peta Thorneycroft
Marange diamonds sold in US despite an American ban
Diamonds from Zimbabwe's Marange fields are being sold in the United States and elsewhere despite an American ban on doing business with the southern African country's national mining company, Chines...Published: 29 Jun 2012 at 08:20hrs | | by Bloomberg
EU wants to be involved in Zim diamonds
The European Union offered on Thursday to help Zimbabwe address mounting concerns over corruption in its diamond sector, only months after the industry watchdog lifted a ban on sales.The EU h...Published: 28 Jun 2012 at 20:21hrs | | by Sapa-AFP
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