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Trust gets US$5million, collapses in 3 years
THE Marange-Zimunya Community Share Ownership Trust (MZCSOT) has collapsed only three years after the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamonds Corporation (ZCDC) injected US$5 million to prop it, a Zimbabwe Ind...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 18:58hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lines up 10 diamond auctions
Zimbabwe is looking at conducting 10 diamond auctions this year, as it seeks to generate more revenue from the gems, the country's minerals marketing agency has said. The targeted auctions are...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ED is leading us away from Pharoah and towards the Promised Land
The new Zimbabwe that everyone talks about is surely upon us. We see signs of it all around.Even if we have yet to reach the Promised Land, it is clear that we have left the bondage of Egypt l...Published: 23 Jun 2018 at 13:04hrs | | by Joice Tsitsi
Mnangagwa challenges ZCDC
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has challenged state diamond mining entity, Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) to upscale production and increase its contribution to the livelihoods of people living in ...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's govt admits Chiadzwa killings
MANICALAND Provincial Affairs minister Mandiitawepi Chimene (pictured) has unwittingly confirmed the fatal shooting of diamond panners by State security agents assigned to guard the Chiadzwa diamond f...Published: 12 Sep 2017 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Robin Hoods must avert State capture
The political identity and executive authority of the State of Zimbabwe is vested in its Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Forces, President Robert Gabriel Mugabe. It ...Published: 30 Oct 2016 at 10:35hrs | 1 | by Rangu Nyamurundira
Kasukuwere should be investigated, says Mnangagwa's ally
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police, Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission and the Auditor General should move in to investigate Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister Saviour Kasukuw...Published: 26 Oct 2016 at 07:08hrs | | 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 | | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's allies accuses Mugabe on diamonds cash
Factional fighting in Zanu-PF yesterday reached new levels when Members of Parliament (MPs) aligned to Team Lacoste, a faction fighting to have Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa succeed President Robe...Published: 01 Apr 2016 at 15:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's nephew wants a 10% empowerment levy
Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment Minister Patrick Zhuwao is proposing a 10 percent empowerment levy on companies as part of efforts to generate internal resources to fund the indigeni...Published: 05 Oct 2015 at 06:19hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
Kasukuwere exposed in recording
A recording of Zanu-PF national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere misleading the eastern region that funds were about to be availed in the Marange-Zimunya Community Share Ownership Trust (CSOT) h...Published: 12 Aug 2015 at 18:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere, Wadyajena war spills into Zanu-PF structures
THE war between Zanu-PF national commissar Saviour Kasukuwere and Gokwe-Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena has spilled from Parliament to party structures.Party youths in Harare y...Published: 01 Aug 2015 at 18:34hrs | | by Tendai Mugabe
Gamatox 2 brewing, says Jonathan Moyo
Zanu-PF politburo member and Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo has accused sections of the party calling for Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere's censure of pushing an agenda sim...Published: 31 Jul 2015 at 10:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu washes his hands
Transport minister Obert Mpofu has washed his hands in the ongoing probe of the Marange-Zimunya Share Ownership Trust telling the Parliamentary Portfolio committee on Youth and Indigenisation tha...Published: 31 Jul 2015 at 08:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere to be grilled over 'murky' multi-million dollar empowerment deals
Embattled former Youth and Indigenisation minister, Saviour Kasukuwere, faces further scrutiny as he appears in Parliament tomorrow to explain "murky" multi-million dollar empowerment deals handled by...Published: 08 Jul 2015 at 15:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faction targets Kasukuwere
RELATIONS between Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa's faction and the group that had coalesced around President Robert Mugabe's wife, Grace, ahead of the party's acrimonious congress in December last ...Published: 03 Jul 2015 at 08:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere faces arrest
It is understood that Mayor Justice Wadyajena, the chairman of the Parliamentary Porfolio Committee on Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment is under pressure from Zanu-PF hawks that feel...Published: 02 Jul 2015 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Desist from corruption, civil servants told
The Minister of State for Manicaland Mandi Chimene has called upon civil servants in the province to discharge their duties professionally and to desist from corruption tendencies.Chimene has ...Published: 14 Feb 2015 at 13:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP sequestrated over a $1,6m VAT bill
Flamboyant Gokwe Nembudziya Zanu-PF MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena is being haunted by the taxman, and could be thrown out of his transport business by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) which h...Published: 11 Jun 2014 at 12:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Two diamond firms to remain in Marange
Government has formally informed diamond companies in Marange that only one or two of them will be left to mine, after they failed to properly account for revenue realised from their operations....Published: 23 Apr 2014 at 23:34hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Zanu-PF minister caught in web of lies'
Christopher Mushowe, the Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister, yesterday squirmed under tough probing over ex-Mines minister Saviour Kasukuwere's dubious documents that sought to justify claims that...Published: 11 Apr 2014 at 10:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Minister quizzed over Marange-Zimunya trust
The Minister of State for Presidential Affairs in Manicaland Province, Chris Mushohwe, has fingered political enemies for his defeat in the 2008 Parliamentary elections and expressed ignorance over a ...Published: 10 Apr 2014 at 13:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Diamond bosses could be charged for contempt of parly
OFFICIALS from diamond mining firms in Chiadzwa could be charged for contempt of Parliament after they told a Parliamentary Portfolio Committee that they were unaware of the existence of the Marange-Z...Published: 20 Mar 2014 at 21:13hrs | | by Zvamaida Murwira
Mpofu could be in trouble with Mugabe
Former Mines and Mining Development Minister Obert Mpofu is under spotlight from after saying on Monday that he was not aware of the existence of the Marange-Zimunya Community Share Ownership Trus...Published: 12 Mar 2014 at 15:55hrs | | by Matthews Estell
Chiadzwa diamond companies 'must be responsible and show respect' - Kasukuwere
FORMER Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has accused companies mining diamonds in Chiadzwa of being dishonest and disrespectful of the community they operat...Published: 11 Mar 2014 at 01:54hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Top Zanu-PF officials accused of looting diamond funds
Top Zanu-PF politicians have been accused of looting funds meant for community share ownership trusts thereby derailing community development, a parliamentary portfolio committee heard Thursday....Published: 28 Feb 2014 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Marange community receives measly $400,000 from diamond firms
The Marange-Zimunya Community has so far received only $400 000 from two companies out of a possible $50 million pledged by five companies operating in Chiadzwa, a parliamentary portfolio committee he...Published: 13 Feb 2014 at 14:39hrs | | by Rumbidzayi Zinyuke
Depletion of Marange diamonds, firm retrenches 950
Anjin Investments has retrenched at least 950 workers out of close to 1 800 people since it started operations in 2010. About 190 of the remaining 845 workers still face the chop as the compa...Published: 11 Dec 2013 at 03:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
AAG urges Zim to 'embrace community trusts'
The Affirmative Action Group (AAG) says Zimbabweans should continue to embrace the community share ownership trusts being rolled out by government as they are an engine for social and economic develop...Published: 16 Jun 2013 at 08:46hrs | | by Staff Reporter
War vets demand 20% stake in Marange diamonds
War veterans in Mutare are demanding a 20% stake in the Marange-Zimunya Share Community Ownership Trust saying there has been no equitable distribution of wealth in the country since 1980. Mut...Published: 18 Mar 2013 at 05:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hwange community to benefit from mining firms
Government is set to launch the Hwange Community Share Ownership Trust a development that will see the local community getting a 10% stake in the coal mining firms.The community share ownershi...Published: 13 Oct 2012 at 17:09hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe launches Marange-Zimunya Community Trust
President Robert Mugabe has officially launched the Marange-Zimunya Community Share Ownership Trust with an initial contribution of US$50 million by five mining entities in Chiyadzwa.Mugabe s...Published: 27 Jul 2012 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Some are being used by being equated to Mandela says Mugabe
President Mugabe yesterday said Zimbabweans should be cautious of Western leaders who praise them as good leaders while arming them to work against the people. He said Western leaders could use Zimba...Published: 27 Jul 2012 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
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