Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF Strongman Handed Top Diamond Job

A known Robert Mugabe ally and former army chief has been handed a top position at one of the state owned firms mining at the Chiadzwa diamond fields, which a key human rights campaigner has called 'worrying'.

The Marange Resources firm has appointed Tshinga Dube, a former chief executive of the Zimbabwe Defense Industries (ZDI), as its chairperson. Dube, a former senior army Colonel is also a top ZANU PF politician and a member of the party's supreme decision-making body, the Politburo. Dube was also a board member of the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) for eight years.

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