The billion dollar diamond deal which would have seen Zimbabwe selling rough diamonds worth $1.2 billion a year to the Surat Rough Diamond Sourcing India Limited is off, according to the Times of India.
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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has warned that Zimbabwe could slide back to the chaos of 2008 unless the Southern African Development Community nips the current tension within the country which has seen several of his party members including a minister being arrested and charged.
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Britain has described threats by President Robert Mugabe to nationalise British companies as “utterly irresponsible and counterproductive” and has promised to give affected companies whatever support it can.
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Zimbabwe has enormous potential but it will not be able to exploit this until and unless there is a clearer political roadmap and the brain drain of Zimbabweans to all parts of the world is reversed, a British peer, Lord St John Bletso, said during a debate on Zimbabwe in the House of Lords last week.
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William Gumede’s book: Thabo Mbeki and the battle for the soul of the ANC has some interesting comparisons of Mbeki and his predecessor Nelson Mandela. It also has an interesting quote from Mohandas Ghandi who Gumede says Mandela admired greatly.
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