Posts by Charles Rukuni

Zimbabwe exported diamonds worth $361.1 million last year according to the central bank governor Gideon Gono. This was a drastic improvement from 2009 when it exported diamonds valued at $37.4 million.

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A United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) special investigator, Frank Dutton, is coming to Harare this week to investigate allegations that UNDP vehicles were used to smuggle diamonds from River Ranch…

Five years ago Enos Nkala formerly the third most powerful man in ZANU-PF after Robert Mugabe and Edgar Tekere called on President Robert Mugabe to step down. Now!   “I am…

In October 2006 Former ZANU-PF strongman Enos Nkala called a press conference at his home. His message was that President Robert Mugabe was distorting the country’s history. He is what…

United Nations-owned African Management Services Company (AMSCO) has refused over the years to disclose its relationship with River Ranch Diamond Mine.  It admitted receiving payment from the mine but could…

The United States and the European Union has been fighting to stop the export of diamonds from Marange because these are “blood diamonds” and it is in breach of targeted…

Lending rates in Zimbabwe are still too high and are prohibitive to the productive sectors, central bank governor Gideon Gono says. This problem is compounded by the aloof attitude of some multinational banks that are not actively supporting the domestic economy and seem to be extending “illegal international sanctions on Zimbabwe”, he said.

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