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Chiwenga courts major diamond firm

Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, who arrived in India on Friday morning, has immediately set to work by engaging Hari Krishna Exports, one of the world's leading diamond processing firms.The company, which boasts a manufacturing capaci…

Published: 23 Aug 2025 at 14:56hrs | 244 | by Staff reporter

Mutapa blocks ZCDC diamond sale

Zimbabwe's state-owned diamond miner, the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC), has been plunged into a deeper financial crisis after its sole shareholder, the Mutapa Investment Fund (MIF), vetoed the sale of a key diamond parcel t…

Published: 08 Aug 2025 at 08:25hrs | 164 | by Staff reporter

State diamond firm lays off hundreds to avoid collapse

Zimbabwe's state-controlled diamond miner, the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC), has launched a major retrenchment exercise in a desperate bid to stave off collapse, following a brutal crash in global diamond prices that has sh…

Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 11:08hrs | 176 | by Staff reporter

Duo appears in court for illegal diamond deal

Two men appeared before Harare magistrate Mrs. Ethel Chichera on Tuesday, accused of attempting to sell diamonds without the required licence.Stanley Zhanda (55) from Norton and Wellington Mukandiwa (42) from Mutare face charges of contrav…

Published: 28 May 2025 at 10:43hrs | 74 | by Staff reporter

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 dealer.Manicaland assistant police spok…

Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 04:54hrs | 4 | 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 Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabw…

Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 19:14hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe strikes diamond in Europe

Zimbabwe has the potential to produce diamonds worth US$5 billion annually, leading investors who are coming into the country- with more than 500 years in the field have said.After meeting the President in Brussels yesterday, the chief exe…

Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 08:26hrs | 268 | by Staff Reporter

Schools still COVID-19 hotspots

SCHOOLS have remained COVID-19 hotspots despite a downward trend in new infections recorded throughout the country in the past week, government has said.Government yesterday extended the level two lockdown by a further two weeks, but opene…

Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:51hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter

Cultivate succession culture in Zanu-PF

DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, your gift of longevity is a demonstration of the generosity God has for you. Given that the average lifespan stands well below half your age, the Almighty smiles merrily at you. Congratula…

Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:50hrs | 13 | by Cyprian M Ndawana

EU demands Zimbabwe reforms

THE European Union (EU) has maintained a tough stance on Zimbabwe saying that the southern African country must fully implement the 2018 election observer mission recommendations (EOM) before the 2023 polls.This was after Zimbabwe's Foreig…

Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:50hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

600 Matebeleland South miners forfeit gold claims

CLOSE to 600 gold claims owned by small-scale miners in Matebeleland South province have been forfeited to the Mines ministry after the owners failed to pay inspection fees.Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) general council secretary Phelemo…

Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:48hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Democracy should not be this scary

THE call by the Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC-T for the postponement of the 2023 harmonised elections is not only an assault on democracy, but exposes the selfish nature of the unelected opposition party that wants to continue to reap where it …

Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:47hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Forex abusers, money laundering kingpins not deterred by arrests

Foreign currency abusers and money laundering kingpins continue to defy the law despite recent arrests, a situation that has resulted in the eroding of incomes and unnecessary suffering.The exchange rate on the black market has persistentl…

Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:46hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter

Wartime bomb shakes Lupane

FIVE family members are lucky to be alive after a bomb exploded in their homestead, blowing off the roof of a house and damaging three huts at neighbouring homesteads in Lupane.The explosion occurred on Sunday afternoon at the homestead of…

Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:46hrs | 4 | 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 (MMCZ) could be leaking the reserve price …

Published: 18 Mar 2021 at 06:43hrs | 5 | by Staff rpeorter

Depriving the poor of the right to education

Dear Editor, Thank you and your crew for your informative editions which have become the voice of the voiceless giving hope to the hopeless.What we witnessed today driving around Murowa Ward in Zvishavane is a sorrow state being worsened b…

Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 11:04hrs | 13 | by Murowa Community Zvishavane

Diamond Platnumz arrested over 'indecent' pictures

Popular Tanzanian musician Diamond Platnumz has been arrested for publishing "indecent" photographs on social media, the information minister told parliament on Tuesday.Since Monday images have circulated on social networks showing the 28-…

Published: 17 Apr 2018 at 15:32hrs | 9 | by AFP

Grace Mugabe's 'diamond ring debtor' slapped with $1.4m default judgment

LEBANESE businessman Jamal Joseph Ahmed, who is embroiled in a $1,4 million diamond ring wrangle with First Lady Grace Mugabe, has been slapped with a $1,475 million default judgment after failing to defend a claim filed against him by a l…

Published: 06 Sep 2017 at 06:49hrs | 433 | by Staff reporter

Grace Mugabe's $1,4m diamond ring saga rages on

LEBANESE businessman Jamal Ahmed, who is embroiled in a $1,4 million diamond ring wrangle with First Lady Grace Mugabe, has approached the Supreme Court challenging Judge President George Chiweshe's recent ruling denying him access to his …

Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 08:24hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Mugabe boast of booting Chinese out of Marange, 'I'm bitter!' - subtle warning in naming and shaming

Whilst one can understand Mugabe's "bitterness" at being made to look the fool parading a fat cheque not even worth the paper it was written on. Still one has to question why he found it necessary to name and shame the Chinese, particularl…

Published: 20 Jun 2017 at 21:02hrs | 1086 | by Wilbert Mukori

Diamond companies fooled Mugabe

President Robert Mugabe has publicly admitted that he was fooled after being paraded holding up a $1,5 million dummy cheque by Chiadzwa diamond mining companies at the behest of then Indigenisation minister Saviour Kasukuwere.Mugabe told t…

Published: 19 Jun 2017 at 13:54hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Government paid Nikuv International Projects with diamonds revenue

A top government official on Wednesday revealed in court that part of the country's diamond revenue was used to pay companies reportedly linked to Israeli company, Nikuv International Projects.Mines and Mining Development secretary, Franci…

Published: 27 Apr 2017 at 04:44hrs | 17 | by Staff Reporter

Dear government of Zimbabwe

May you please attend to the following as a matter of urgency.1. Our roads are now a death trap please do something in conjunction with Zinara, local authorities, communities and Transport Ministry. Our roads are in a dire state. Please do…

Published: 11 Mar 2017 at 19:51hrs | 7 | by Anonymous

Zimbabwe diamond operations among the best in Africa

KPCS chairman Ahmed Bin Sulayem, who was in Zimbabwe on a familiarisation tour of the country's diamond industry, said Zimbabwe diamond operations are among the best in Africa.Sulayem said this after touring mines in the Chiadzwa area of M…

Published: 30 Sep 2016 at 06:49hrs | 7 | by Staff Reporter

Diamond marketer plans to leave Zimbabwe

FIRST Element, the company that has been solely marketing Zimbabwe's diamonds since 2014, says it will leave the country next year and hand over operations to locals following suspicions that it could be complicit in suspected undervaluing…

Published: 24 Jul 2016 at 09:20hrs | 2 | by Kuda Bwititi

China begins secret underground airbase construction in Zimbabwe - Report

COLOGNE/ HARARE - China has now reportedly began construction work of a state of the art underground military airbase, in the diamond rich Marange fields in eastern Zimbabwe, The Telescope News reported on Tuesday.Marange diamond fields ar…

Published: 16 Dec 2014 at 06:27hrs | 32 | by Itai Mushekwe/ Mary-Kate Kahari

Let us bring back diamond sales to Zimbabwe

On 15 September 2014 the Daily News led with a story that about $45 million in diamond revenue had been seized by a South African company in Belgium after it had been granted an interim order against the Zimbabwean government over a cancel…

Published: 17 Sep 2014 at 08:13hrs | 11 | by Tawanda Museve

No longer a curse? - African leaders take action that may transform the mining

The Hollywood blockbuster movie, Blood Diamond, tells a gripping story of how diamonds fuelled Sierra Leone's 11-year civil war which erupted in 1991.  It depicts kidnappings, use of child soldiers, amputations, rape, killings and des…

Published: 17 May 2014 at 07:39hrs | 15 | by Kingsley Ighobor

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