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2012-03-15· After weeks of negotiations with the government, CNN's Marketplace Africa show has been granted access to the controversial Marange diamond fields in eastern Zimbabwe.
2018-04-26· Groups of miners in the diamond fields in Marange in 2006. When the scramble peaked in October 2008, more than 35,000 people, including children and women, were either mining or buying diamonds in
The controversy over Marange diamond fields in Zimbabwe has received much global attention. This new report by Sokwanele brings together a wide-ranging overview of events, meetings, human rights abuses and environmental degradation rampant in the mineral-rich area.
THE MARANGE DIAMOND FIELDS OF ZIMBABWE: AN OVERVIEW . October, 2011 “We have begun to see how this mineral wealth can become a curse –as it so often has been in Africa, as people are killed and communities destroyed in the fight for diamonds that will forever be marked with the blood of the innocent.” Rowan Williams, October 2011, Harare.
Mutare — Four armed robbers who had reportedly turned the Marange diamond fields into a free for all since 2017, have been arrested. The four, on
2011-08-08· A torture camp run by Zimbabwe's security forces is operating in the country's rich Marange diamond fields, BBC Panorama has found. The programme heard from recent victims who told of severe
2012-11-13· The report, Reap What You Sow: Greed and Corruption in Zimbabwe's Marange Diamond Fields, was released by the Ottawa-based group to coincide with the Zimbabwean government's conference on diamond
2009-06-26· (Johannesburg) Zimbabwe's armed forces are engaging in the forced labor of children and adults, and are torturing and beating local villagers on the diamond fields of Marange district in eastern
2017-12-18· And diamond mining in Zimbabwe is no exception. In 2001 diamonds were first discovered in the Marange area in Eastern Zimbabwe. Since then these diamond field has been beset by conflict, bloodshed, forced labor and government crackdowns. According to one industry expert the Marange diamond area is the richest diamond field ever seen. Not only
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2016-11-02· Blood diamonds eight years after the Marange massacre. October 2016, marks 8 years since the Army of Zimbabwe launched a three week-long brutal attack on the people of Manicaland Province, home to the Marange Diamond Fields. Eight years later, diamond mining in Zimbabwe is no harder than before. Chiadzwa is an area near Mutare, in Eastern
The Marange diamond fields are an area of widespread small-scale diamond production in Chiadzwa, Mutare West, Zimbabwe. 'Although estimates of the reserves contained in this area vary wildly, some have suggested that it could be home to one of the world's richest diamond
The struggle for power in Zimbabwe is inextricably linked to the discovery of “the richest diamond field ever seen by several orders of magnitude” (1) at Marange. What should have been a means
Our research from the Marange diamond field suggests that although workers in Zimbabwe have trade union rights; this is not always the practice. Chinese diamond companies have reconfigured this and reproduced a context free of independent unions in line with the militarised capitalist model. The deception by these companies is not only limited
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Zimbabwe government officials plan to meet with the Chinese and South African companies currently working with the government at the Marange diamond fields. Marange, the site of reported diamond smuggling and human rights violations, has been a source of controversy for the Kimberley Process (KP), the mechanism put in place to stem the flow of
Following the establishment of Marange as a protected area by the government, little information from the diamond fields has been released to the outside world, with Zimbabwe
2011-08-08· Soldiers and paramilitary police from Zimbabwe have broken ranks to speak out about a 2008 operation in which civilians working in the Marange diamond fields were massacred. Some of those involved
2016-03-15· Eastern Zimbabwe’s Marange diamond fields, discovered in 2006, have been touted by experts as the world’s biggest diamond find in generations. In 2008, government forces ruthlessly drove out
Zimbabwe has been under investigation for allowing the military to control the Marange diamond field, as well as permitting diamond smuggling and illegal panners, mostly locals, in the unregulated
(Johannesburg) Zimbabwe’s armed forces are engaging in the forced labor of children and adults, and are torturing and beating local villagers on the diamond fields of Marange district in
Sokwanele has produced a full report that aims to synthesise this glut information into a single report providing our readers with an accessible and wide ranging overview of events, meetings, human rights abuses, environmental degradation, and the network of the people involved in the ‘Marange
The controversy over Marange diamond fields in Zimbabwe has received much global attention. This new report by Sokwanele brings together a wide-ranging overview of events, meetings, human rights
2019-10-20· Zimbabwe’s Minister of Justice Ziyambi Ziyambi was even blunter. “We have never had anyone, let alone children, forced to work in the Marange diamond field,” he said, adding that “we believe there is a political agenda hidden behind the ban.”
2011-08-09· Zimbabwe has dismissed as "ridiculous" allegations by BBC Panorama that security forces run a torture camp in its rich Marange diamond fields.
The Marange diamond fields are an area of widespread small-scale diamond production in Chiadzwa, Mutare West, Zimbabwe. 'Although estimates of the reserves contained in this area vary wildly, some have suggested that it could be home to one of the world's richest diamond deposits'.
2017-04-03· HARARE Thousands of families could be relocated from Penhalonga, just outside Mutare, amid claims that rich diamond deposits have been discovered in the area — although the government is dampening expectations. This comes as production at the Marange diamond fields, also in
The Marange Diamond Fields are widely regarded as the richest alluvial diamond deposits globally. In August 2018, the Company announced an agreement between Vast and Red Mercury (Pvt) Ltd, a company owned by the Marange-Zimunya Community Share Ownership Trust.