Tue, Nov 24, 2009
NEW YORK - (Business Wire) The Rapaport Group and the RapNet Diamond Trading Network have implemented an immediate trading ban on all diamonds from Zimbabwe’s Marange diamond fields due to severe human rights violations. As Marange rough diamonds are uniquely identifiable, the ban does not apply to diamonds from Zimbabwe that are not from the Marange area.
Tue, Nov 17, 2009
HARARE - An international network of companies providing services that support the development of fair and competitive diamond and jewellery markets announced Monday that it was banning trade on all diamonds from Zimbabwe due to alleged human rights violations at a site where the precious mineral is being mined.
Mon, Nov 16, 2009
Mining of "conflict" diamonds in eastern Zimbabwe by a web of companies in which South African giant Old Mutual has a share, has begun, in defiance of a Harare High Court order reports the Cape Times.
Fri, Nov 27, 2009
The government is under heavy pressure from the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme to put the field under the control of private partners and pull military units out of the area reports VOA.
Tue, Nov 24, 2009
Shonga - When white Zimbabwean farmer Irvin Reid arrived in Nigeria almost five years ago, he was given a set of grid references in the remote bush and told to find water and build a new farm.
Sun, Nov 22, 2009
Ministers for Agriculture and Food Security in the Southern African region have said that despite the economic slow-down that affected the region the food security in the region is reassuring.
Thu, Nov 19, 2009
Johannesburg - Zanu-PF's "land grab" in Zimbabwe should form part of an agreement on the protection of investments to be signed with South Africa in Harare next week, Agri-SA said on Thursday.
Thu, Nov 19, 2009
Harare - Zimbabwe's military has begun to withdraw from a contentious diamond field as private investors move in, the head of a South African mining company investing in the area was quoted Thursday as saying.
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