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The Movement for Democratic Change yesterday called on the Kimberley Process to lift the ban on Marange diamonds saying the people of Zimbabwe and the country’s civil servants would benefit tremendously from the revenue generated by the diamonds.

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African Consolidated Resources chief executive officer Andrew Cranswick told United States officials on November 6, 2008 that high-ranking Zimbabwean officials including central bank governor Gideon Gono, First Lady Grace Mugabe…

World Diamond Council boss Eli Izhakoff has called on the Kimberley Process to return to its core principles and keep politics out of the organisation because this will paralyse the diamond certification body.

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If as a nation, we do not resolutely stamp-out corruption, especially among us people in positions of authority and influence, us the so-called chefs…… we will soon discover, too late, that policy formulations, implementation, monitoring and decisions have been based on self-interest, racial overtones, regional and tribal considerations at the expense of national good.

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Zimbabwe is a sensation- anything gets published, so argues diamonds expert Chaim Even-Zohar. He was commenting on a British newspaper’s refusal to correct a story that said President Robert Mugabe’s…

Zimbabwe will know this week whether it can sell its diamonds from Marange legally or not as members of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme which gives the clean bill are meeting in Kinshasa to discuss the Zimbabwe issue among other things.

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