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Vic Falls double header for Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will be in Victoria Falls today to lead key proceedings of two separate high-level international economic conferences as the Second Republic intensifies its efforts to accelerate d...Published: 23 Mar 2023 at 06:15hrs | 4 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa to open diamond conference today
THE extraordinary meeting of the Association of African Diamond Producing Countries (ADPA) and Council of Ministers will be officially opened by President Mnangagwa this morning.The President,...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:37hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu to be grilled like Chivayo on Monday
Parliament has summoned Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu and other high-ranking bureaucrats who served under former president Robert Mugabe's administration as the legislative assembly continues to s...Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 15:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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
Midzi was about to expose Marange diamond looters?
Former Zanu-PF minister and Ambassador to the US, Amos Midzi, was reportedly in the process of compiling an intelligence report exposing leading political leaders in the country, who have been implic...Published: 10 Jun 2015 at 08:13hrs | 1 | by Kassim Dube
Zimbabwe torpedo Australia's KP vice chair aspirations
The 12th Kimberly Process plenary meeting has ended without consensus on which country will assume the 2015 KP vice chairmanship in 2015 between the United Arab Emirates and Australia.The KP p...Published: 14 Nov 2014 at 14:03hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Court set to rule on Zim diamonds as white farmers mull compensation
WHITE farmers whose farms and several properties were seized by Zanu PF during the controversial land reform scheme might get a sigh of relief if the Belgium court rules in their favour during a ...Published: 25 Sep 2014 at 13:58hrs | | by Staff reporters
New diamond deposits found in Zimbabwe
MUTARE-based miner DTZ-OZGEO (Pvt) Limited (DTZ-OZGEO) says it has found conglomerate deposits capable of producing 2,5 million carats of top quality diamonds in the province's Chimanimani area....Published: 13 Dec 2013 at 10:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Call to lift Zimbabwe diamond sanctions
An international meeting to discuss rules curbing the sale of conflict diamonds began Tuesday with a call for the United States to lift sanctions on Zimbabwean mines.Representatives of 81 coun...Published: 19 Nov 2013 at 15:32hrs | | by AFP
Biti appeals for diamond money
Finance minister says he will ask President Robert Mugabe to order diamond mining companies to pay millions of dollars into the nation's treasury.Finance Minister Tendai Biti told reporters M...Published: 12 Mar 2013 at 04:47hrs | | by AFP
Zimbabwe to double Marange diamond output
Zimbabwe expects diamond production from its Marange fields to double to 16,9 million carats this year as companies ramp-up production in a region where human rights groups have flagged concerns over ...Published: 29 Jan 2013 at 14:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Western bloc's KPCS proposal set to face opposition
Proposals by the Western bloc within the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme to redefine both the KPCS Charter and set up a full secretariat are set to face opposition when the KP participants meet ...Published: 04 Jun 2012 at 12:43hrs | 4 | by Luckmore Safuli in Washington DC, USA
Zim diamond discovery has courted both controversy and fame
The discovery of diamonds in June 2006 by villagers in the Marange area in rural Chiadzwa, 90km southwest of Mutare, has been a mixed blessing for Zimbabwe.The Marange diamond fields - hailed...Published: 01 Apr 2012 at 10:59hrs | 2 | by Mark Scorfield - timeslive
India releases Zim's rough diamonds worth $22,7 million
India's Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has released a consignment of rough diamonds worth $22,7 million seized from Zimbabwe, Daily News reported.Latest media reports by global diam...Published: 22 Dec 2011 at 09:18hrs | 1 | by Business reporter
MDC-T's Eddie Cross against Zimbabwe diamond sales
Harare - The Kimberley Process diamond watchdog should not have cleared Zimbabwe to sell gems from its controversial Marange fields because the mining conditions remain murky, a Zimbabwean lawmaker sa...Published: 02 Nov 2011 at 10:15hrs | | by -
US obsession with Zimbabwe strange
There is something strange, and particularly evil about the United States of America's obsession with Zimbabwe. It is no doubt based on racism and an enduring dislike of the self-determination of bla...Published: 01 Jul 2011 at 04:53hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Zimbabwe says NO to British monitor
Zimbabwe says it will block attempts by the Kimberley Process to appoint British national Simon Gilberts as the international diamond watchdog’s point person in the controversial Ma...Published: 22 Apr 2011 at 07:50hrs | 1 | by Byo24News
Minister reiterates that KP approved Zim to sell diamonds
THE Deputy Minister of Mines and Minerals Development has reaffirmed that Zimbabwe got clearance to sell diamonds from the diamond watchdog, Kimberley Process.In a telephone interview on Thurs...Published: 06 Jan 2011 at 17:42hrs | | by Byo24
Kimberley Process denies clearing Zimbabwe diamond sales
The international diamond watchdog, the Kimberley Process (KP), has reportedly denied giving Zimbabwe permission to carry on selling diamonds from the controversial Chiadzwa fields.According t...Published: 06 Jan 2011 at 16:38hrs | | by Byo24
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