News about Zimbabwe that you can use
Rio Tinto, which owns the Murowa Diamond Mine in Zvishavane, lobbied the Namibian-led Kimberley Process team that had been sent to Zimbabwe to investigate human rights abuses, to produce a white-washed account of the violence in the Chiadzwa diamond fields, a cable released by Wikileaks says.
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Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi said President Robert Mugabe will not support Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa or Vice-President Joice Mujuru to succeed him but was fostering a stalemate between the two so that a younger successor could emerge.
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Former South African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma told United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the US could help Zimbabwe’s recovery programme by bypassing the government and assisting commercial farmers and the business sector directly.
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President Robert Mugabe and a handful of senior Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front officials, excluding security chiefs, set aside their political animosities to pay their respects in person at a memorial service for Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s wife Susan.
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It was a rare week in Harare as the funeral of Susan Tsvangirai united politicians from both the Movement for democratic change and the Zimbabwe African National Union- patriotic Front.
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The South African government paid Zimbabwe $100 million a month for civil servants salaries to maintain peace in the run-up to the 2010 World Cup according to a cable released by Wikileaks.
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Namibia said it wanted to look at the diamonds issue in Zimbabwe from a Kimberley Process perspective and did not want to be diverted by political issues.
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Namibia’s deputy Minister of Mines and Energy Bernhardt Esau said Zimbabwe was going to be his primary challenge when his country was elected to chair the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme.
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African Consolidated Resources chief Andrew Cranswick told United States ambassador Charles Ray that Mbada, one of the joint-venture partners in the Mrange diamonds, could produce gem quality and industrial diamonds worth over $1.6 billion a year. And it could increase this production 10-fold.
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