Zimbabwe Consolidation Diamond Company 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 from Chiadzwa. Mpofu made the remarks during an all-stakeholders diamond security conference in Mutare last Friday. His remarks came amid reports that illegal foreign diamond buyers […]
Former police boss Augustine Chihuri says not ready for Parly grilling
PARLIAMENT has finally managed to serve former Zimbabwe Republic Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri with summons to appear in the House for grilling over the $15 billion diamond revenue which allegedly went missing in Chiadzwa. The former police chief this week wrote to the Temba Mliswa-led Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy saying he was […]
Chinese want more access to Chiadzwa diamond fields – Mnangwagwa bows to pressure
THE Zimbabwean government has bowed to Chinese pressure and will restore Anjin Investment’s operating licence after finalisation of the new diamond policy, nearly three years after the entity was stopped from mining in Chiadzwa, the Zimbabwe Independent can reveal. Last week, President Emmerson Mnangagwa hinted that government would consider roping in new players in Chiadzwa […]
Chinese Duped Me, Still Upset Over Diamond Losses Says Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe said plans to deliver prosperity to people in Manicaland through their diamond wealth were frustrated by ousted mining Chinese firms with whom he said he was still “upset” because they “duped him”. He was addressing thousands of Zanu PF followers who braved the chilly weather to attend his ‘youth interface’ rally in […]
Nonagenarian Mugabe’s darkest secret: An U.S.$990bn blood diamond mine he’s running with China’s Red Army
Across a remote tract of southern Africa, naturally fortified by mountains and patrolled by hundreds of soldiers with dogs trained to tear intruders apart, teams of mining experts are hard at work. Yet they are not speakers of Shona, the native language of this land on the border between Zimbabwe and Mozambique. No, thousands of […]
Breaking The Barriers of Limitations From Zimbabwe Blood Diamonds to Zambia Copper Mines
Practically all the problems that come into human experience are some form of limitation. All through our society there’s a common hunger for freedom from confinement. Throughout human history many discoveries have been made as a result of the willingness to look at experience from a new viewpoint. Some of these discoveries have resulted in […]
Zimbabwe Marange Blood Diamonds – How Army Killed My Brother
THIS week the Zimbabwe Independent which in December last year began publishing fresh stories based on our ground-breaking investigation into the Marange alluvial diamonds discovery and subsequent looting exposes how the military’s “Operation Hakudzokwi” resulted in untold suffering, arbitrary arrests and deaths of innocent diamond miners in the hands of state security forces. This special […]
