Zimbabwe: Locals Flood Diamond Fields

8 November 2019

Security officials have raised alarm over an exponential increase in illegal panning activities in Chiadzwa diamond fields with more than 3000 panners arrested this year only.

Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) chief security officer Ellias Mvere told delegates at the recently held Diamond Indaba that there has been a two hundred percentage increase in arrest of illegal panners.

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