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It was not only President Robert Mugabe who was named as receiving favours from the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. The late vice-President Joshua Nkomo and former Rhodesian Prime…

Zimbabwe is not likely to be able to sell its diamonds from Marange legally for the next two years if it persists with its confrontational attitude towards the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, an industry insider, Chaim Even-Zohar says.

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President Robert Mugabe has managed to maintain a fairly clean slate. There have been reports that he has amassed massive wealth and has secret bank accounts and mansions but no…

In 1979-80, the final stretch of the liberation war which forced form Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith to the negotiation table that resulted in the country’s independence, some 10 000…

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African Consolidated Resources chief executive Andrew Cranswick has sobered up.  His report for the six months to September appeared reconciliatory as it did not mention his long standing battle with the Zimbabwean government over the Marange diamonds for which the London-listed company is better known.

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Zimbabwe has always tried to promote indigenous business people. But in some cases the establishment has taken advantage and abused the system. Some have used political patronage to boost their…

Surat Rough Diamond Sourcing India Limited, a consortium of 1 500 diamantaires which signed a deal with Zimbabwe in October under which it was to be guaranteed US$1.2 billion worth of rough diamonds a year from Marange is now desperate after its government ruled that no one should purchase Zimbabwe’s diamonds because they had not been cleared by the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme.

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Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has been accused of bringing the country to its knees because of his “land grabbing”. Zimbabwe had tried to acquire land through constitutional means and until…

Zimbabwe’s ambassador to the United Nations Chitsaka Chipaziwa says Zimbabwe will never bow to pressure from the West over its diamonds because what bothered them all was not what Zimbabwe was doing with its diamonds but the fact that the precious stones were not under their control.

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