Zimbabwe’s President Served Private Diamond Miners Their Eviction Notices

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Last week, Zimbabwe’s Minister of Mines ordered several foreign diamond mining companies to immediately cease their activities in Marange, an area in the east of the country. The companies have been given 90 days to remove their equipment after being told that they were operating illegally, as their licenses had long since expired. There has been much discussion in recent months about the proposed nationalization of diamond mines in Zimbabwe, with some of the affected companies openly opposing the idea.


A new, state-owned company, Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Co., is expected to take over the vacant mines. It will be responsible for finding, mining and selling all future diamonds in the country and is intended to make the diamond industry more efficient and transparent. Zimbabwe is one of the world’s biggest diamond producers, but in 2015 the government received around $60 million less from diamond miners, via royalties and other fees, than it had in 2014. This was not good news for a country that has recently relied heavily on the diamond industry to prop up a rapidly declining economy.

This should have happened a long time ago. Africa is the richest nation in the world yet we have too few African millionaires because so many other countries have been extorting the natural resources from Africa for years.

Zimbabwe's President Served Private Diamond Miners Their Eviction Notices - Urban Intellectuals

 

[Supa cat]

They shouldn't be there making profit in the first place

 

[Maddmike]

fukkin CACs wont do shyt but flood the market with the diamonds they have stockpiled making them even more worthless then they already should be.


If CACs cant have it nobody will.

 

[agpxknt]

Get them ALL the FUKK up outta there

 

[Cat piss martini]

good!!!!!
throw them gypsies the fukk out!

 

[Yehuda]

Africa is the richest nation in the world

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In resources Africa (if they were a united nation) would be the richest group in the world.

 

[godkiller]

Zim was only using them cacs and foreigners for their knowledge. Now GTFO. Mugabe is going to build Zim's own mines now, sort of like how China steals the blueprints off companies, builds a Chinese company, and then revokes the foreign companies' business claims or forces them to take Chinese partners.

 

[Vinny Lupton]

Zimbabwe is gonna get "caught with WMDs" or found to be harboring terrorists soon, and the Caucasoids are gonna deal them some "freedom"

 

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Zim was only using them cacs for their knowledge. Now GTFO. Mugabe is going to build Zim's own mines now, sort of like how China steals the blueprints off companies, builds a Chinese company, and then revokes the foreign companies' business claims or forces them to take Chinese partners.

 

[mbewane]

Time to throw another party

Zimbabwe: Woman picks up crumbs after Pres Mugabe’s lavish birthday party

Zimbabwe: Woman picks up crumbs after Pres Mugabe’s lavish birthday party
By Arthur Chatora on March 2, 2016 — An unidentified Zimbabwean woman picks up crumbs that fell off the VVIP table after President Robert Mugabe’s 92nd birthday party which cost $800,000 in a country where millions face hunger and starvation.

Woman picking up crumbs after Pres Mugabe’s lavish birthday party Photo: Columbus Mavhunga/ NewsDay

The adage a picture is worth a thousand words could not be more suitable to describe an image of an unidentified woman picking up cake crumbs that fell off the VVIP table after President Robert Mugabe’s lavish 92nd birthday party in Masvingo last Saturday.

Observers say the picture highlights the stark inequalities and profligacy in a country where the poor face hunger and starvation.

The lavish birthday party held last weekend, which reportedly cost close to U.S.$1 has raised eyebrows and has been widely criticised. Observers questioned such opulent and conspicuous spending amidst the prevailing drought and hunger and many feel the money could have been used to assist vulnerable families.

Obert Gutu, a spokesperson for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), said “The money that is being budgeted for this ill-conceived birthday bash should actually be used to import maize to avert the impending starvation in Masvingo province and other parts of the country”.

The southern Africa region faces a humanitarian disaster and 14 million people face hunger and starvation due to the prevailing drought.

In a statement released last month by the World Food Programme, the “Worst affected in the region by last year’s poor rains are Malawi (2.8 million people facing hunger), Madagascar (nearly 1.9 million people) and Zimbabwe (1.5 million) where last year’s harvest was reduced by half compared with the previous year because of massive crop failure”.

 

[godkiller]

Time to throw another party

Zimbabwe: Woman picks up crumbs after Pres Mugabe’s lavish birthday party

CAC media propaganda. We haven no idea who this woman is, who paid her and who didn't. For the record, all world leaders have lavish festivities, whether their country be rich or poor. Mugabe is no more at fault than the Brazilian President who holds lavish parties and eats like a king despite favelas and the legiins of poor unwashed in Brazil. Child beg and pick up food off the ground in Brazil.

Why does the CAC media not criticize Brazil's government?

What about the Egyptian leader Mubarak who lived in his golden palace and held amazing parties whilst the Egyptian people struggled with illiteracy, unemployment, etc? The cacs watched this happen for 20 years until some Egyptian set himself on fukking fire b/c he couldn't afford to fukking eat.

Why did the cacs never criticize Egypt's government?

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

It WOULD be better if Zimbabwe emulated the Debswana model of diamond extraction and production though I have little faith in ZANU-PF.

@Poitier @KidStranglehold

 

[Poitier]

Most Zimbabwe stans have never met a Shona or Ndebele person in their life.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

It WOULD be better if Zimbabwe emulated the Debswana model of diamond extraction and production though I have little faith in ZANU-PF.

@Poitier @KidStranglehold

Agreed. But I have mixed opinions on Mugabe...