Zimbabwe: When Diamonds Become Pawns in a Power Game

18 February 2010
opinion

Harare — AS the national economic empowerment agenda begins to take root in our country against the backdrop of continuing illegal sanctions whose main thrust was maliciously extended and expanded on Tuesday by the European Union to derail and sabotage the GPA under pressure from the British government with support from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC-T, two hostile developments have emerged as the evil centre-pivots of the new campaign against the national empowerment agenda.

The first of these developments is the self-evidently malicious media hullabaloo over Mbada Diamonds which is an empowerment joint venture arrangement facilitated by Marange Resources, a subsidiary of the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation and two South African- based investors, namely the New Reclamation Group as well as Core Mining and Minerals.

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