Written by The Zimbabwean  – 23rd September 2009
In a remote corner of Zimbabwe, the true worth of a vast new diamond field emerges. Robert Mugabe’s response? To allow his mutinous military to enslave villagers as miners and seize the profits – and destroy fragile protocols against blood diamonds. (Pictured: A miner shows some low quality [...]

From Nehanda Radio – By Denford Magora, 20th August 2009
I have previously told you about buckets of loose diamonds stored in the vaults of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe but what we did not know was just how this is affecting the “outstanding issue” of Gideon Gono at the Reserve Bank.
The American government recently put [...]

From The Telegraph – By Sebastien Berger Southern Africa Correspondent, 26 June 2009

The Zimbabwean military and senior figures in Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party are making millions from a diamond field where hundreds of miners were massacred last year, a new report has claimed.
The diamond deposits at Chiadzwa, in Marange district in eastern Zimbabwe, cover more [...]

From The Zimbabwe Telegraph – By Garikai Agenda Chimuka, March 25, 2009

The past week has been momentous for our new Finance Minister, Hon. Tendai Biti.He started by presenting the revised national budget for 2009 and then went on to present the STERP programme which focuses on short term stabilization of the economy
Whilst not denying that [...]

From ZimOnline – Tuesday 20 January 2009 by Jameson Mombe
JOHANNESBURG – Zimbabwe’s central bank has proposed adopting neighbouring South Africa’s rand currency and a return to a free market economy, in an ambitious Plan B to pluck the country out of crisis with or without a power-sharing government with the opposition.
Marathon negotiations to salvage [...]

By RUBY MANDIMBA
Published: Wednesday 19 November 2008
Zim Daily News
ZIMBABWE – HARARE – Security details from the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) have gunned down twenty diamond panners code-named Magweja in Chiadzwa in a special fatal operation to rid the precious mineral-rich fields of plunder by the suffering citizens.
According to a source who works within the structures [...]